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| View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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| View Entry | A. P. Massengill v. A. M. Shadden | Jefferson | Assault and Battery |
Additional Cause of Action: Trespass. Date: Unknown. Opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 74 | 4 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1878 | Bailey P. Harrison v. State | Sumner | Assault and Battery |
Assault of Martha Jones. Joseph C. Stark, Judge of 10th Circuit, W. N. Cowden, Circuit Court Clerk, B. D. Bell, District Attorney General, D. P. Hart, Constable of Sumner Co. Jurors: J. K. Taylor, E. H. Green, J. J. Smith, T. F. Honeycutt, A. W. Overton, H. P. Enloe, George Schleuter, Charles Poston, M. V. Trout, H. E. Love, V. H. Allen, A. Escue. E. T. Bush, Foreman. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 38 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1884 | Calvin Smith v. Memphis & Arkansas City Packet Company | Shelby | Assault and Battery |
The folder includes three briefs, two hand-written and one printed. Smith worked as a "rouster" on the steamboat Rene Macready, loading cotton. He claims he was attacked by the first mate, beaten on the head and buttocks with a hickory stick, and then threatened with a pistol and shot at. |
West | Range: 83 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 253 | 45 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1893 | Calvin Lee v. State | Weakley | Assault and Battery |
Victim: Cora Hornsby |
West | Range: 82 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 576 | 78 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1879 | E. P. Monulton v. State | Jefferson | Assault and Battery |
Monulton was on trial for assault and battery of S. E. Whaler. He was charged with beating, wounding and the ill treatment of Whaler. |
East | Range: 19 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1682 | 33 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1922 | Glover Davis v. National Life & Accident Insurance Co. | Shelby | Assault and Battery |
Plaintiff claims she was the victim of assault and battery by the defendant's agent in her home. She says that, "without provocation or excuse [he] cursed, assaulted, and beat" her. |
West | Range: 80 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1132 | 10 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1910 | Hills Business College v. Ethel Raney, big next friend John T. Raney | Shelby | Assault and Battery | West | Range: 80 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1185 | 147 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1879 | Hiram Percell v. State | Washington | Assault and Battery |
Incomplete File. Document state that the plaintiff was in error by counsel. The county treasury was to pay the defendant. |
East | Range: 19 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1684 | 1 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1906 | Horace Graham v. State | Hamblen | Assault and Battery |
Plaintiff is appealing the charge that he assaulted Albert Stephens. Case file is incomplete; opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 90 | 2 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1853 | Jacob Turner v. Thomas Stratton | Sumner | Assault and Battery |
Jacob Turner claims Thomas Stratton beat and wounded him severely and he seeks damages for his pain and suffering |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 241 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1875 | John B. Bosley et al. v. William Butler | Davidson | Assault and Battery |
Additional defendant - Elias Napier |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 63 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1890 | J. W. Young, in error v. State, in error | Hamilton | Assault and Battery |
Young was charged with unlawfully fighting in a public place, the county court house in Chattanooga, with Lo Kimble. Young…"ran behind the wire of the Clerk's office…and picked up an ink stand and I grabbed a poker at the fire place and stood there with.. it" from Kinble's testimony. |
East | Range: 19 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1810 | 35 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1851 | John Nance v. Calloway Hodges | Jefferson | Assault and Battery |
Nance accused Hodges of assaulting him, having "beat, wounded, and ill treated him," inflicting wounds & bruises on his face & eye & other body parts, which altercation took place at Nance's house after Hodges proposed to "adjust a difficulty about some land," which led to Hodges verbally abusing Nance & then striking him. Nance (who was 60-70 yrs old) attempted to defend himself with fire tongs. Venue changed to Sevier County & then to Cocke County. |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1158 | 40 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1851 | Jonathan McThompson v. State for Elizabeth Hill | Williamson | Assault and Battery | Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 245 | 14 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1827 | Matilda v. John Crenshaw | Sumner | Assault and Battery |
Slave case. Recorded in Book H, Page 477. Additional parties Stephen Crenshaw next friend of the slave Matilda. The charge includes false imprisonment. |
Middle | Range: 21 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 184 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1817 | Noah B. Tindale v. John Shelby | Sumner | Assault and Battery |
Hon. Bennett Searcy, Circuit Ct. Judge, 3rd Circuit in Smith Co. Hon. Nathaniel W. Williams, Circuit Ct. Judge in Sumner Co. Anthony B. Shelby, Circuit Ct. Clerk for Sumner Co. Originally heard in Sumner Court; change of venue to Carthage, Smith Co. Jurors: William Pendarris (sic), Elijah Haynie, Joel Dyer, Jacob Feght, Abram Overrall, John Feght, George Tunney, Robert W. Roberts, Phillip Sutton, William Short, Matthew Duke, Jeremiah Taylor; Patrick Darby, John H. Bowen; Felix Grundy |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 212A | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1884 | Robert Canaday v. J. E. Narton | Dyer | Assault and Battery |
Alternate defendant name spelling: Harton Alternate plaintiff name spelling: Canada |
West | Range: 83 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 257 | 42 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1883 | S. A. Pool v. Jacob Storz | Shelby | Assault and Battery | West | Range: 83 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 232 | 18 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1884 | State v. Wesley Maniss(?) | Henderson | Assault and Battery |
Defendant indicted for assaulting his wife, Virginia, on 15 Aug. 1882. |
West | Range: 83 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 254 | 17 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1851 | State v. John Green | Claiborne | Assault and Battery |
Victim: Alexander Rebudard |
East | Range: 9 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1151 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1857 | State v. Cromwell Delozier | Sevier | Assault and Battery |
Andrew Delozier also listed as a defendant. Victim: Caroline Delozier. |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1163 | 25 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1874 | State v. Jesse Beatty, et al. | Fentress | Assault and Battery |
Defendants: James Beatty and Lidia Beatty. Beatty was accused of assaulting Samuel Wright. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 19 | 23 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1877 | State v. James M. Lasater | Coffee | Assault and Battery |
Lasater was accused of being guilty of turbulent and riotous conduct within and about a hotel in the town of Manchester kept by Joel Staver. He was seen quarrelling, committing assault and battery, breaching the peace, making loud noises, and trespassing within the hotel space. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 35a | 44 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1901 | State v. Will Lewis | Hardin | Assault and Battery |
Victim: Frank Ross. |
West | Range: 81 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 745 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1882 | Sidney Smith v. B. J. Cocke | Wilson | Assault and Battery |
Plaintiff sued for $5000 in damages from the claimed assault. |
Middle | Range: 34 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 637 | 81 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1888 | State v. W. H. Wright | Macon | Assault and Battery |
Case against Wright for assault and battery on E.F. Woodmore. Wright previously pleaded not-guilty but Court found him guilty and fined him $150. Wright called for new trial but was overruled, then he appealed. |
Middle | Range: 35 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 769 | 53 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1869 | State v. Michal Shipwash, William Davis & James R. Davis | Roane | Assault and Battery |
Michal Shipwash charged with assault & battery against Thomas Childress. Shipwash, William Davis and James R. Davis as sureties were indebted to state for $250 each to be void on condition that defendant should appear in court. Because Shipwash did not appear in court to answer charge, they have to pay the $250 each. Defendants demur and the Attorney General sustains it. Each defendant was tried separately. |
East | Range: 9 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1189 | 39 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1880 | Thomas Whitney v. State | Sumner | Assault and Battery | Middle | Range: 20 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 58 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1878 | Thomas W. Vance v. State | Jefferson | Assault and Battery |
Vance was accused of beating Amanda Bacon with a stick. |
East | Range: 20 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1630 | 26 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1920 | Vaneda Bond, by exe. v. Clyde G. Burson, et al. | Davidson | Assault and Battery |
Additional plaintiff - Emma Gregory - Additional defendant - F. W. Woolworth Company. |
Middle | Range: 21 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 159 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1811 | William Luty v. Robert Purdy & George Sevier | Roane | Assault and Battery |
Plaintiff claims that he was wrongly imprisoned and beaten by the Defendants, who are soldiers, for selling liquor. |
East | Range: 5 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 52 | 26 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1906 | William Day v. Bettis Majors | Shelby | Assault and Battery |
Plaintiff says defendant came up to him in the lobby of the Gayoso Hotel and without any reason began to curse and abuse him, pushing and striking him, and causing him severe injury. Cover is missing. |
West | Range: 80 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 997 | 69 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1910 | Will Williams v. Gaston Hotel Co. et al | Shelby | Assault and Battery |
Additional defendants: W. F. Mooris and Peter Bishop. |
West | Range: 80 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1059 | 156 | Order A Copy |