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The files located in the Tennessee Supreme Court Cases represent an especially valuable resource for historical and genealogical research at the Tennessee State Library and Archives [TSLA].
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View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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View Entry | 1920 | A. E. Birdsong v. H. P. Hayes | Giles | Breach of Warranty |
other causes of action: fraud and deceit in the sale of a horse, and in action to his damage, under $500 dollars. |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 391 | 55 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1875 | A. C. Crosswhite, et al. v. State | Johnson | Breach of Bond |
2 cases tried together, both with same cause of action. 1st case seeking $1500 damages & 2nd case seeking $700. Other plaintiffs: R. H. Donnelly; John Crosswhite; I. F. Shawn[?]; S. Q. Duggert; R. R. Butler; J. C. Donnelly; J. A. Southerland. |
East | Range: 20 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1605 | 34 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1923 | City of Memphis v. Memphis Asphalt & Paving Co. et al. | Shelby | Breach of Contract |
Additional defendants: Massachusetts Bond Company. Defendants entered into a contract with plaintiff to create and manage a sidewalk and road for the city. The defendants are being accused of failing to maintain the road and sidewalk therefore breaching the said contract. Exhibit include contract, instructions to bidders, and the foreman's daily report. 2 folders. |
West | Range: 78 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1769 | 868 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1901 | Computing Scale Co. v. W. H. Pratt & Co. | Chester | Breach of Contract |
The defendant claimed that it rec'd the wrong weight scale it ordered. |
West | Range: 81 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 750 | 13 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1873 | Daniel Galloway v. State | Davidson | Marriage, Breach of Promise |
Case involves the intermarriage of a "negro" and white person, Malinda Vine alias Malinda Brandon. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 340 | 83 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1858 | David F. Huddleston v. David Parkey & Jordon Hendley | Union | Breach of Contract |
Incomplete document: Huddleston had made a contract with defendants to transport a large amount of freight including bacon, corn, cornmeal, feathers, and dried beef to Chattanooga. Defendants backed out. Transcript begins on page 14. Jordon also spelled Jordan. |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1177 | 48 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1926 | Frank Payoulatas v. State | Hamilton | Breach of Trust |
Final Decree only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 72 | 1 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1873 | Harvey& Keith v. John W. Wilson | Dyer | Breach of Trust |
John Wilson bought a large quantity of supplies for himself and family on the credit from Harvey & Keith, a business firm in Kentucky. Wilson didn't want to pay so Harvey & Keith pressed charges. The sum that Wilson owed was $1,476.00. |
West | Range: 84 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 18 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1876 | John Y. Gill v. S. B. Spurlock & Co. | Lincoln | Breach of Trust |
Additional parties: George J. Goodrich, J.M. Spurlock, and W.E. Hoke. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 30 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1918 | James W. Purdy v. State | Davidson | Breach of Trust |
Witnesses included Wayman Lewis, Ruth Lewis, H. C. Binkley, H. C. Frost, and Bush Sneed. |
Middle | Range: 21 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 105 | 62 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1921 | J. T. Cain Jr. v. State | Gibson | Breach of Bond | West | Range: 80 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1133 | 41 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1932 | Jim Prater v. State | Polk | Breach of Trust |
Jim Prater is accused of fraudulent breach of trust by one John Lewis. The charge stems from a note that was issued between the two men. |
East | Range: 10 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1423 | 12 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1873 | Mack Bohm & Co. v. John W. Wilson | Dyer | Breach of Trust |
Bohm Mack & Co. is a business in Cincinnati . |
West | Range: 84 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 18 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1861 | Mathew Timmons et al. v. State | Breach of Bond |
Additional plaintiffs: James Lynch and Robert Duncan. The plaintiffs in error acted as the securities for William Maher's bond. Maher was accused of murdering Michael Odonald. The plaintiffs were forced to pay when Maher did not appear in court. |
East | Range: 9 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1202 | 23 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1922 | Purity Feed Mill v. Chattanooga Feed Company | Hamilton | Breach of Contract | Middle | Range: 27 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 72 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1873 | Pittman Bro. & Co. v. John W. Wilson | Dyer | Breach of Trust |
Wilson was indebted to this company in the amount of $1, 719.00. |
West | Range: 84 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 18 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1946 | Roy Smelcer v. State | Greene | Breach of Trust | East | Range: 6 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 244 | 89 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1853 | State v. The Columbia& Hampshire Turnpike Company | Maury | Breach of Contract | Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 239 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1914 | State v. W. W. Willis | Anderson | Breach of Trust |
Willis accepted a deposit of $1537.39 from Charles F. Eager. At that time, Willis knew that the Knoxville Banking & Trust Company was insolvent. The argument is based on the interpretations of the Bank Law of 1911 and the Constitution. This law states that it is a felony to accept a deposit, as an officer of a financial institution, known to be insolvent. |
East | Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 4 | 14 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1929 | State v. W. W. Roberts | Roane | Breach of Official Duty |
Roberts, former sheriff of Roane County, was accused of imposing & collected fines for boarding prisoners which he pocketed. Testimony mentions drinking on the job as well as allowing his wife to let prisoners out in his absence. Exhibits show some prisoners were held in the workhouse for two to three times longer than they were sentenced. See add'l documentation in box ET 12. |
East | Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 4 | 546 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1857 | State v. James Cummings, et al. | Hamilton | Breach of Official Duty |
James Cummings was elected sheriff of Hamilton County, then apparently exhibited behaviors contrary to those required by law. This brief lists statues pertaining to proper duties of office, most of which have to do with housing prisoners. Incomplete case ; brief and earlier filing only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 5 | 4 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1920 | State v. General G. Hampton | Shelby | Breach of Trust |
Actual charge is Fraudulent Breach of Trust. Hampton was given $50 to make bond for L.T. Fort, and failing that to return the money to Fort's mother, Lilia Fort. According to the charge, he failed to return the money, converting it to his own use. |
West | Range: 84 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 49 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1880 | State v. Antonio Pescio& Louis Legario pescio& State v. Antonio Pescio& Louis Lagorio | Shelby | Breach of Bond |
The defendants operated a merchandise store in Shelby County. |
West | Range: 84 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 149 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1867 | State v. James M. Hinton et al. | Davidson | Breach of Bond |
Additional Defendants: E. P. Fort, Eli L. Woodfs, J. T. Huggins, W. T. Briggs, M. S. Stewart, Thomas Hobson. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 321 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1826 | State v. Allen Brown | Rutherford | Breach of Bond |
Additional names: Swan Hardin, on trial for murder. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 361 | 2 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1823 | State v. William Howlett | Sumner | Breach of Official Duty |
Trial was moved from Davidson County. There are documents concerning the change of venue included with the case. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 361 | 100 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1874 | State v. Theodore Lott | Shelby | Breach of Trust | West | Range: 83 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 247 | 2 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1887 | State v. Judge Julius J. DuBose | Breach of Official Duty |
Impeachment trial. Case volume 2; Volume 1 not included. Charge against Defendant only. Also see MT Oversize Box 1. |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 521 | 80 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1887 | State v. Henry Norman | Rutherford | Breach of Trust | Middle | Range: 34 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 690 | 41 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1917 | State v. S. I. Wood | Shelby | Breach of Trust |
The defendant was also charged with larceny, based on a contract of agreement with Emma McClanahan to deposit money owned by W. M. McClanahan. |
West | Range: 79 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1452 | 155 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1867 | State v. George W. Lewis & Andrew McKee | Claiborne | Breach of Bond |
Lewis & McKee breached the $1,000 appearance bond they had posted by failing to bring John Branham to court to answer an indictment for larceny. Lewis & McKee alleged various procedural defects, resulting in the court's dismissal of the charge, which dismissal the Attorney General appealed to the SC. |
East | Range: 9 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1194 | 6 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1890 | State v. J. Scott Bates | Bedford | Breach of Trust |
In Nashville, Bates rec'd from Josie Barnes a $2,000 check, representing insurance proceeds on the life of her deceased husband Thomas. Bates received the funds as Josie's agent for the purpose of depositing it in a Bedford County bank. Instead, Bates appropriated $825 of that money for his own use. Bates lived in Bedford County at Haley's Station. Josie lived in Nashville. (While case ongoing, Josie married S. D. Seals.) Jury convicted Bates & sentenced him to 18 mos. in the penitentiary. |
Middle | Range: 35 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 832 | 63 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1878 | State v. James O. Senter | Hamilton | Breach of Trust |
Senter, an attorney and agent for Abraham Miller, accused of appropriating for his own use $900 of a $1,018.40 U. S. Treasury certificate payable to Miller. The money was bounty & back pay due Miller as the father of Samuel S. Miller, a U. S. soldier, 2d Lieutenant in Co. K of the 9th Regiment of Tennessee Cavalry Volunteers. Senter charged with "fraudulent breach of trust". |
East | Range: 20 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1659 | 79 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | State v. Matthew Mathis | Jackson | Breach of Official Duty |
Defendant was overseer of public road that was in disrepair. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 239 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1868 | State v. John Roney, et al.. | Sumner | Breach of Bond |
Additional defendants: E. H. C. Saurer and W. A. Lowell. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 333 | 76 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1874 | State v. John Eatherly | Cheatham | Breach of Bond |
Eatherly was accused of illegally carrying a weapon and plead abatement on the first judgment. One of the jurors was his uncle, and Eatherly's council argued that this made the judgment unlawful. In Cheatham County a mile from Ashland City the defendant allegedly pulled out a pistol and fired it. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 13 | 14 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1880 | State v. Albert Akers, et al. | Davidson | Breach of Bond |
Additional defendants: George F. Akers, W. S. Dunnavant, N. L. Greenfield, J. E. Saunders, J. P. Humphreys. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 59 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1881 | State v. E. W. Napier | Davidson | Breach of Trust |
The defendant was an African-American man. |
Middle | Range: 21 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 174 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1880 | State v. John Stephens | Tipton | Breach of Trust |
Wronged party: Jacob Smith. |
West | Range: 84 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 37 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1885 | State v. David Calhoun | Shelby | Breach of Trust | West | Range: 83 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 281 | 31 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1887 | State v. J. E. Cuff | Decatur | Breach of Trust |
Defendant was charged with selling a peanut crop and keeping the proceeds instead of paying the money to John Phifer, to whom he owed a debt that the crop yield was to pay for. |
West | Range: 83 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 416 | 15 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | State v. Pat McLean & Robert Fitzgerald | Shelby | Breach of Trust |
The defendants faced the additional charge of larceny. The case involved the purchase of fraudulent tickets at a race track in Memphis. |
West | Range: 82 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 693 | 116 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | State v. S. H. Hairston | Breach of Official Duty |
Incomplete file; just brief. Hairston, a constable, was indicted for levying upon and selling property without notice. Brief argued proof did not correspond with indictment, which said underlying judgment was James R. Laferry v. Herron & White. But proof showed judgment was actually D. J. Carr v. Herron & White. |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1164 | 2 | Order A Copy | ||
View Entry | 1936 | State v. W. S. Howell | Hamblen | Breach of Trust |
Defendant employed by Pinnacle Mills from 1 Jan. 1927 until June 1930. Charged with fraudulently appropriating $8011 in company monies for his own use. Found guilty of "fraudulent breach of trust". Two bank notes were pinned to page 45 of larger Corporation Record Book. |
East | Range: 8 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 959 | 496 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1866 | State v. Jerry Ferguson ( col.) | Greene | Breach of Trust |
Indictment says Fraudulent Breach of Trust. Judgment only. Case is incomplete. |
East | Range: 9 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1124 | 3 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1916 | State v. Felix T. Pope | Shelby | Breach of Trust |
And fraud. The defendant was indicted for a fraudulent breach of trust when he secured a loan of $4,000 on $5,900 worth of notes for one A.G. Meehan. He was only authorized to secure a loan of $3,000 and appropriated to his own use the other $1,000. |
West | Range: 79 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1515 | 212 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1876 | State v. Joseph Calloway & Luke L. Calloway, exe. of Thomas H. Calloway, dec. | Bradley | Breach of Bond |
Decedent was one of sureties on official bond of James Pettitt, Bradley County revenue collector for 1869. Other sureties were Joseph Hincle; D. C. Cowan; Simon Dixon; Ben Prichard; C. A. Norman. State brought suit against Pettitt for failing to pay over the $10,000 in tax revenue he collected. State was seeking to collect $10,000 of Pettitt's $20,000 official bond from the estate of decedent. |
East | Range: 20 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1654 | 81 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1923 | State v. G.O. Box | Decatur | Breach of Trust |
G.O. Box is charged with unlawfully taking, stealing, and carrying away goods and groceries with a value of $50, the personal goods and chattels of I.L. Smith. |
West | Range: 78 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1760 | 12 | Order A Copy |