Tennessee Supreme Court Cases

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View Entry 1883 A. J. Stancell v. W. J. Smith Chester Attachment

Alternative plaintiff name: Stancill.

 West Range: 83 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 222 44 Order A Copy
View Entry 1865 Abner Shacklett v. Rebecca Polk Attachment

Plaintiff filed for an attachment against defendant to secure the payment of a note of $10,000.00.

 Middle Range: 33 Section: 7 Shelf: Box Number: 526 10 Order A Copy
View Entry 1886 A. L. Harris v. J. H. Crane, et al. Lawrence Attachment

Additional Defendants: C. D. Williams.

 Middle Range: 34 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 600 86 Order A Copy
View Entry 1914 Asberry Maweatherry et al.v. J. C. Lackie et al Madison Attachment

5 folders. Also spelled "Meariweather". Add. Plaintiff: Ollie Meriweather. Add. Defendants: J.E. Batchelor & R.L. Siler. In 1910, plaintiffs executed to Batchelor a trust deed of 109 acres to secure a note of $814.65. In 1913, the executed another trust deed on the same land for a note of $467.75. When Lackie bought the mortgages, Maweatherry issued a rent note that he failed to pay and Siler sued and levied out the crops on the land. Maweatherry filed this bill seeking to enjoin attachment for dispute.

 West Range: 79 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1390 610 Order A Copy
View Entry 1875 Alexander Boyd v. Silas W. Gentry, John Johnson & Joseph Johnson Putnam Attachment

In 1862 the Johnsons purchased a horse from Gentry in order to deliver it for sale to the Confederate Army in Chattanooga. They promised to return with $135 profit in CSA currency. When note came due Gentry claimed the note specified US bank currency. Boyd charges Gentry with further fraud, and sues to recover debts owed to him.

 Middle Range: 20 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 7a 80 Order A Copy
View Entry 1919 Anna Bowman& husband v. Home Medicine Company Davidson Attachment

Case involved the Deputy Sheriff of Davidson County, Joe Wolf.

 Middle Range: 21 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 139 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1873 Alexander Strauss & Henry Strauss v. S. Schuster et al Shelby Attachment

Additional Defendants: Henrietta (Ginsberg) Bowers and Morris Frieberg. Schuster and Frieberg residents of Shelby Co, TN. Bowers redient of Millikens Bend, LA. Strausses partners in firm A. & H. Strauss and residents of Cincinnati, OH. Schuster is Bowers's brother- in- law.

 West Range: 84 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 67 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1876 Adolph Kaufman v. Gustav Uebele & Caroline Uebele et al. Shelby Attachment

Additional defendants implied, but their names are uncertain and were probably on the lost pages.

 West Range: 84 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 80 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1881 August Pracht v. H. S. Albright, et al. Haywood Attachment

Additional Defendant: W. J. Lyle, Sheriff of Haywood County.

 West Range: 84 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 169 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1877 Allen v. New York& East Tennessee Iron Company Attachment

County: Unknown.

 East Range: 5 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 35 4 Order A Copy
View Entry 1903 A. T. Welles v. Chocktaw, Oklahoma & Gulf Rail Road Co. Shelby Attachment

Attachment and Writ of Garnishment

 West Range: 81 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 865 135 Order A Copy
View Entry 1864 Alexander C. Parks v. L. M. Jones Bradley Attachment

John F. Hays also listed as a plaintiff. Filed to attach his land to the original bill that describes the parties entering into a bond, which the defendant failed to pay.

 East Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1161 20 Order A Copy
View Entry 1877 A. B. Conner & T. J. Lattner v. Daniel Kaylor et al Hamilton Attachment

Plntff. Conner elected Sheriff of Hamilton Co. in March 1870. Firm of Baxter, Champion & Ricks won a judgment of $722.52 against plntffs. after a deputy failed to execute a collection of $700 against deft. Kaylor & in favor of their firm. Plntffs. Paid the judgment. They ask the court to include them among Kaylor's creditors, & to attach all property that Kaylor owns or in which he has an interest as they believe that he is selling it in an effort to hinder & defraud his creditors.

 East Range: 20 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1594 445 Order A Copy
View Entry 1897 B. Lowenstein & Brothers v. P. T. Sipes, et al Tipton Attachment

Additional defendants: O. G. Bomar

 West Range: 81 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 789 359 Order A Copy
View Entry 1885 Buford, McWherter & Harris v. Horner & Taylor, et al. Perry Attachment

Additional defendant: J. H. Houssels.

 Middle Range: 34 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 577 120 Order A Copy
View Entry 1886 Bolivar H. Cooke & Co. v. W. A. Pierce & Co., et al. Lawrence Attachment

Attachment & Injunction. Also mentioned: W. H. Dustin, W. H. Sykes & Co., D. A. Reeder. Additional Complainant: John P. White. Additional Defendants: S. B. Herbert, W. A. Gilmore. Pages missing.

 Middle Range: 34 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 585 283 Order A Copy
View Entry 1907 Bluff City Lumber Co. v. T. James et al. Shelby Attachment

Additional defendants: The Central Amusement Company, The Gaston National Bank, R. C. Amers, Trustee.

 West Range: 80 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1147 197 Order A Copy
View Entry 1869 Benjamin Chandler v. W. W. Summers, S. R. McCamy, J. W. Willy, & John C. Gant Hamilton Attachment

Chandler owned $10,000 note executed by Summers, payable to McCamy, given in exchange for half a lot fronting 300 feet on Tennessee River. Summers also owned house & lot in Chattanooga. Chandler based request to attach Summers' land on claim that Summers was nonresident or "studiously conceals the place of his residence" to avoid being served. Issues in case: valuation of Confederate money. Events described occurred around time Confederate Army occupied & then evacuated Chattannoga. Civil War case.

 East Range: 9 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1187 65 Order A Copy
View Entry 1876 B. W. Mason, et al. v. F. P. McMillion, et al. Giles Attachment

In 1860 B. W. Mason recovered a judgement against D. G. Usery & F. P. McMillion for $150 and costs. Then he recovered other judgements of various amounts from the same defendants. The defendants were found to be completely insolvent and the judgement was transferred to Elisha R. Davis. The plaintiffs asked that the land belonging to McMillion be attached to the debt and sold to satisfy it.

 Middle Range: 20 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 15a 88 Order A Copy
View Entry 1879 Bailey Davis & Co., et al.v. J. S. Ramsey, et al. Carroll Attachment

Additional Plaintiffs: Daniel H. Bailey, Calvin N. Davis, George Ceawright, William Phillips, George M. Jackson, C. H. Phillips. Defendants: John K. Ramsey, O. R. Rush, J. B. Wilder, Thomas Omarah, Graham Wilder, Thomas A. Courtney.

 West Range: 84 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 126 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1885 Ben Donnell (col.) v. James S. Campbell Gibson Attachment

Court of origin undetermined.

 West Range: 83 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 284 22 Order A Copy
View Entry 1893 Bettman, Bloom & Co. v. Holland & Hollingsworth, et al.. Carroll Attachment

Defendants: R. W. Holland, C. C. Hollingsworth, A. C. McRae, D. M. Farmer, J. R. Smith, Rock City Saddle Co., Kirkpatrick & Co., Campbell Green & Co., Spurlock Neill & Co., Fite Lyles Davis & Co., Richardson Brothers & Co., Phillips Burtoff & Co., Berry Demoville & Co., W. H. Hudson & Son, Brown White & Co., F. M. Kennedy & Co.

 West Range: 83 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 384 60 Order A Copy
View Entry 1898 B. Lowenstein & Brothers, et al. v. P. M. McCadden Shelby Attachment

Additional plaintiffs are not specifically named.

 West Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 707 53 Order A Copy
View Entry 1887 Buckner & Co. v. L. T. Burnett et al. & Bransford & Co. v. L.T. Burnett et al.. Marshall Attachment

Additional Defendants: Ale Burnette, wife of L. T. Burnett, J. N. Beasly Writ of attachment to attach property in bill of complaint to satisfy two judgments.

 Middle Range: 34 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 719 183 Order A Copy
View Entry 1872 Charles E. Hillman, Mary L. Hickman, George Haymord, Ellen E. Hayword, William L. Ledgard, Laura E Ledgard v. George Maney, et al. Davidson Attachment

Maney and Cheatham wrote two notes for $6666 to the plaintiffs but failed to pay the notes. The notes were written in part to pay for land purchased from the plaintiffs and the heirs of John P. Erwin, dec. The plaintiffs sued to have an attachment or lien placed on the land until the debt could be settled.

 Middle Range: 20 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 15a 36 Order A Copy
View Entry 1889 Cherry Morrow & Co. v. A. H. Gregg, et als. Hamblen Attachment

Defendants: A. H. Gregg, Helen M. Gregg, F. H. Gregg, John Gregg, Samuel Munday, and the Gregg Manufacturing Co. Writ of attachment & injunction in order to fulfill previous court judgment, payment of all costs & damages from wrongful suing. Defendants F. H. Gregg, John Gregg were minors. Defendant A. H. Gregg had been doing business in Morristown under name "Gregg Agricultural Warehouse & Seed Co." Allegations of defrauding investors.

 East Range: 19 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1805 57 Order A Copy
View Entry 1899 C. M. Weatherly v. John Meriwether Madison Attachment

This suit concerns the attachment of a portion of the defendant's crop because of unpaid rent. Folder includes two briefs and some hand-written notes.

 West Range: 81 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 762 62 Order A Copy
View Entry 1876 Cowan, McClung & Co. v. Thomas Johnson, et al. Knox Attachment

Defendants: Thomas Johnson, Mary E. Johnson, & Stephen H. Johnson. Debt by promissory note, 20 April 1871, $1,159.19. Defendants left State, April 1874, without paying note. SC sale of properties ordered, 20 Sept. 1876, "a house and lot adjacent to city of Knoxville, on the Clinton Road … 4½ acres." Partners, Firm of Cowan McClung & Co., Knoxville: Perez Dickenson, Charles J. McClung, F. H. McClung, & James D. Cowan.

 East Range: 20 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1649 82 Order A Copy
View Entry 1894 Charles E. Hellier v. R. T. White et al. Shelby Attachment

First page says "Attachment and Injunction Bill." Defendants: Reynolds T. White, H. K. Richards, and the Livermore Foundry & Machine Co., said to be indebted to the claimant by judgment. Folder includes briefs and petitions for appeal.

 West Range: 82 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 588 85 Order A Copy
View Entry 1897 C. H. Larrabee v. The Belmont Boat, et al. Shelby Attachment

Additional defendants: V. B. Thayer, C. H. Belmont.

 West Range: 82 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 677 69 Order A Copy
View Entry 1899 Clara Lane et al. v. United States Building & Loan Association Shelby Attachment

Clara Lane was one of many stockholders who bought stock with this company under the belief that it was a chartered company in Tennessee. It was then discovered that the company was chartered in Kentucky. Lane and others ask for an attachment "to issue to be levied on its assets; the bill be declared a general creditors' bill to wind up said Association and administer its assets in Tennessee."

 West Range: 81 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 765 263 Order A Copy
View Entry 1903 Charles Wyllie v. A. Mettler Shelby Attachment

Plaintiff sued defendant for attachment for the purpose of enforcing a mechanics lien, for work and labor done, material furnished on certain real estate and improvements.

 West Range: 81 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 861 33 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 C. C. Ward, et al. v. J. H. Wheeler, et al. Weakley Attachment

Additional plaintiff: W. E. Alexander; Additional defendant: G. I. Baxter.

 West Range: 80 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1006 45 Order A Copy
View Entry 1894 Cowan, McClung & Co. v. A. H. Gallahar, et al. Knox Attachment

Add pls: Perez Dickinson, J. D. Cowan, F. H. McClung, Matt McClung, R. M. Rhea, Jacob L. Thomas. Add def: H. M. McCroskey, R. N. Hudson, W. S. McCauley, Vastine Strickley, W. G. Lenoir, J. B. Whitman, W. F. Hudson. Plaintiffs previously received judgement against defendants and it was still unpaid. H. M. McCroskey fraudulently transferred land to Strickley to avoid debt. Plaintiffs here filed an attachment to have that land sold.

 East Range: 19 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1907 116 Order A Copy
View Entry 1858 D. C. Falls et al. v. J. G. Puckett Smith Attachment

Additional Plaintiffs: Benedict.

 Middle Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 273 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1883 Day & Proudfit v. William Evans, et al. Crockett Attachment

Case file contains no case from lower court. Additional defendants: C. H. Medlin and his sons, B. H. Medlin and M. W. Medlin. See also WT 144.

 West Range: 83 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 215 19 Order A Copy
View Entry 1885 D. M. Osborne & Co. v. J. B. Blakemore, et al. Carroll Attachment

Additional Defendants: M. V. B. Valentine and A. G. Raulston.

 West Range: 83 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 279 274 Order A Copy
View Entry 1884 D. A. West v. Martha P. Powell, et al. Smith Attachment

Additional Defendants: William Powell, John D. Matthews, Mary C. Matthews, Marion L. Robinson, A. J. Robinson, C. W. West, Jr., Aretha F. West, John L. Robinson, William H. Robinson.

 Middle Range: 34 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 601 113 Order A Copy
View Entry 1875 DeCoursey, Lafourcade & Co. v. Joshua Rice & William Moore Montgomery Attachment

The pl's were a Philadelphia mercantile who sold goods to the def's valued at $188. Rice & Moore ran a mercantile in Clarksville, TN. The def's issued a promissory note as payment. Rice & Moore's business became insolvent, and they were sued to recover the debt owed. See related case Thomas Chadwell, exe. Of E. H. Childress, dec. v. Edward Lawrence, et al. in box MT 8.

 Middle Range: 20 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 5a 52 Order A Copy
View Entry 1889 Day, Horton,& Bailey v. W. Michael Fayette Attachment West Range: 83 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 436 70 Order A Copy
View Entry 1889 David Shelby v. S. A. Gillmore Shelby Attachment

Plaintiff was confined in jail at Marion, AK (Crittenden Co.) when original charges of theft were made by defendant. Was tried and acquitted of charges of stealing. Was unable to appeal charges due to confinement. Appealed to WT Supreme Court.

 West Range: 82 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 473 30 Order A Copy
View Entry 1898 D. S. Louis v. H. C. Crider Carroll Attachment West Range: 81 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 737 98 Order A Copy
View Entry 1876 Edmonds, Pettigrew & Co. (C. W. Edmonds, J. M Pettigrew) v. A. G. Fuller & Co. (A. G. Fuller, Smith H. Holland)& Witcher Jones Shelby Attachment

Defendants are tobacco merchants in Virginia.

 West Range: 84 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 80 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1876 E. M. Apperson & G. V. Rambout/Rambaut, E. M. Apperson & Co. v. George B. Peters Shelby Attachment

George B. Peters resident of Kansas.

 West Range: 84 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 85 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1884 E. A. Clark v. J. S. Nickius et al Shelby Attachment

Missing first 22 pages

 West Range: 81 Section: 3 Shelf: Box Number: 976 388 Order A Copy
View Entry 1884 Evans, Fite, Porter & Co. v. John Leonard, et al. Marshall Attachment

Complainants: William H. Evans, Thomas D. Fite, William Porter, John Wilson. Additional Defendant: J. C. Leonard, W. F. McDaniel, J. W. Foster.

 Middle Range: 34 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 560 114 Order A Copy
View Entry 1884 Elizabeth J. Marable by next friend v. R. A. Crocker, et al. Houston Attachment

Additional Defendant: James M. Lewis, George W. Marable. John T. Nolin as next friend.

 Middle Range: 34 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 562 99 Order A Copy
View Entry 1884 Enoch Rollins v. T. A. Morris, admr. of James Gill, dec., et al. Smith Attachment

Additional Defendants: E. T. Atwood, G. W. Brittle, F. G. Atwood, James T. White.

 Middle Range: 34 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 595 147 Order A Copy
View Entry 1895 Enoch Gadbois v. C. J. Nelson, et al. Cocke Attachment

Case file is incomplete. Additional defendants could not be determined.

 East Range: 9 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1089 2 Order A Copy
View Entry 1853 Emily Farrier, et al. v. David Parrish, et al. Montgomery Attachment

Additional plaintiff: W. H. Allensworth. Additional Defendant: O. W. Herring. Attachment was on a slave.

 Middle Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 241 0 Order A Copy

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