Also found in MT box 548. 6 folders. Additional Complainant: Lillie B. Kirtland. Additional Defendant: Sarah B. Corbett. Exhibits: Law Dictionary, Building Laws of the City of Nashville, residential blueprints, architect specifications, contracts. Complainants contracted to build a house for defendants. Defendants then backed out of contract. Complainants claimed they were unable to sell the house or afford the mortgage and lost said house and money invested therein.

Additional defendant: T.E. Jennings. A.L. Landis and Co. is comprised of A.L. Landis sr., A.L. Landis jr., and John T. Landis. Plaintiff entered into a contract with the defendant to purchase shares of the Fourth National Bank of Nashville with Stock from the Nashville Warehouse and Elevator Co. Plaintiffs claim defendant is violating their contract by now refusing to sell.

Additional Plaintiffs: Lorenzo D. Ault, George S. Brownell, and W. C. Compton. The plaintiffs, dealers in cotton rope and citizens of Ohio, sued the defendants, manufacturers W. H. Dustin and Thomas Dunn, for damages for failure to comply with their contract to furnish the agreed upon quantity of cotton clothes-lines and reel-rope. Contains extensive testimony about the cost and sale of cotton clothe-line, cotton, and contracts for such materials.

The complainants entered into a contract with the defendants for the sale of fabric materials…the defendants attempted to cancel the contract after the materials had been delivered and have failed to return the goods or pay the invoice of $11,336.07 Complainants Carl Vietor, John Vietor, John Achelis, Thomas F. Vietor, Thomas Smidt, and Ernest Vietor doing business as Fred K' & Achelis. Fabric samples included.

Opinion only. Plaintiff leased his land to the defendant to be mined for phosphate rock. By the terms of the contract, the defendant took over the mortgage of the plaintiff. Defendant then claimed the rock was exhausted and it had a right to cancel the contract and foreclose the mortgage.

Additional defendants: Owen H. Davis, John D. Taylor, W. Weaver. Concerns steamboat.

Wood sued for damages after Ravegno failed to uphold his end of a contract to build a house on Deaderick St.

John A. Davis & James B. Hughes are partners under the firm name of the plaintiff. R. C. Anderson owns the defendant company. Add. Defendants: N. J. Anderson, William Boyd, W. M. Bennett, & P. P. Pickard, Trustee. Parties entered into a contract together in which the defendant would be bound to pay the plaintiff for goods, but the plaintiff was unaware of the poor financial standing of the defendant at the time the contract was agreed upon.

In the original bill, Haynie alleged that he purchased seven lots in the A. A. Mellier subdivision along with additional adjoining land. Haynie sold everything but one lot. The bill was filed to "recover for an alleged deficiency of 55 feet and 2 inches." He sued for breach of contract and damages. Case deals with land trading for corporate stock. There are several exhibits: maps folded in the case and one oversized map in MT OV 11.

Minton, a stoves & tinware merchant with admittedly little experience in the jack stock trade, bought 2 imported Spanish jacks from Ezell, pymt in cash, a colt & a $500 note. Dispute arose over 1 jack that had problems with its feet, causing its death. Add. Def: Western Live Stock Insurance Company. Court ruled in favor of Defendants.

In 1892, plaintiff L. Jonas (wholesale and retail merchant) and defendant E. T. Noel entered into a contract for the defendant to build a new storehouse upon his property at the corner of Deadrick and Cherry for use and occupancy of Jonas, who also intended to rent it. After extensive planning and agreement, Noel attempted to back out, prompting Jonas to sue. Exhibits: Oversized map of section of Nashville that includes the proposed building and news ads (MT OV 11). 2 reported cases included

other defendants: Samuel Virgil. File contains hand-drawn map of property along Cumberland River in question.

Baxter was to receive in partial payment for the sale of a lot and house on High Street a lot fronting on Church Street to be valued by Andrew Ewing, John Trimble and A. V. S. Lindsley. The value of the lot was valued different than anticipated. Perkins evidently should pay more thus the lawsuit.

Involved capital stock. Additional defendant: Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail Road Company

Additional plaintiffs: R. F. Jackson, N. Baxter Jackson

Additional plaintiffs: T.H. Hicks, S.P. Clyce, and A.S. Neil. Too many defendants to name. Atha Thomas was elected Treasurer of the State of TN in 1887 and as such was Commissioner of the Insurance Department for the state. Plaintiffs suing defendant for granting a license to the Northwestern Mutual Insurance Co. knowing it had no proper assets to pay its policy holders when losses occurred. Exhibits in MT Oversize Box 5.

Additional Defendants: Joseph Clark, John B. Robinson, W. B. Stokes, Thomas Driver, and Helen Shurer. Brien Sr. was appointed the guardian of the plaintiffs in 1866 after the death of their father Charles Shurer. As guardian Brien signed a bond with the codefendants as sureties. When the plaintiffs came of age they requested a settlement of the bonds of their guardian, which they claimed were overdue.

Willis also sued for past services rendered, the sum of $2100.

White & Hall Co. owned by Walter H. White & Emmett T. Hall.
Case in 2 folders.

Frierson had contracted with defendants for the construction of 2 sewers in Nashville. He sued defendants for changing the grades in the sewers without his consent and in violation of contract, which caused him to do more work. Frierson charging that defendants were indebted to him for $4000-the different between the amount paid for and the actual cost of the work.