Add. Plaintiff: Virginia Hodge.

Additional Causes of Action: Child Support and Divorce. Court of Origin: The Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court for Knox County.

Additional Plaintiff: Annie Mauer. Both defendants are minors and represented by their Next Friend Joseph Ruohs. The defendants state that their deceased father, before dying, asked Ruohs to administer his estate and take custody of his daughters. Plaintiffs accuse Keeny of unjustly filing for guardianship. Plaintiffs state Keeny is unsuited to be guardian due in part to his lack of belief in the Bible.

The issue is paternity. Two men claim to be the father of an orphan child, Brewer insisting that the mother, Florida Mason, told him on her death bed that he is the father, and he wants to adopt her and make her legitimate. Jefferson insists someone named York Cooper is the father, and Cooper wants Jefferson to continue caring for the child.

The defendant was granted a decree of divorce on Aug. 16, 1922. She was also awarded custody of their 4 minor children- ages 15,14,11, and 9. The petitioner charges that the defendant has not been conducting herself properly since the divorce decree was granted. She has been guilty of both drunkenness and lewdness. She has become pregnant and has deserted the minor children, leaving them to fend for themselves. Petitioner seeks custody of the children.

Claimant, a widower, is sued to regain custody of his daughter, age 3, who has been in the care of his wife's mother since the wife died.

"Catlett G. Hurtt who has been accused on oath by me Eliza A. Buxton otherwise called Eliza A. Jenno, a single woman of having begotten the female bastard child called Sarah Ann, of which she was delivered in said County on or about the 21st day of November, 1852, to be dealt with as the law directs."

Additional Cause of Action: Recovery of Alimony. Exhibits include bill of sale, inventory list, uncashed check and divorce documents, correspondences, envelopes, military documents.

Order only.

Supreme court case only. Original court unknown. Rosa Schaffer is the child in question.

Incomplete case: decree only. Child: Mamie Katherine Reed.

Official cause of action: Bastardy, although child support was a result of court decision. Widow Polly Ault gave birth to a male child on Sept. 9, 1849, in Knox Co. John S. Stanley was reputed to be the father. The court adjudicated the paternal relationship and decreed support to be given Polly for child's upkeep.

James Scott was accused of having illegitimate child with Elizabeth Campbell. The child was named Rochell Scott.

Bessie Tittle is 28 and lives in Johnson City with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Tittle. She accuses the Pla. in error of fathering her illegitimate child. Bessie worked at a small store owned by her family. Pla. delivered ice and coal to the store. Bessie was 26 when she and the pla. were first intimate. Bessie originally planned on marrying Roy Crockett, a soldier, but she had not seen him for two years while he was in the army. When he came home, she was pregnant. Exhibit: Post Card from Pla.

Exhibits include correspondences.

Other defendants: Adelaide S. Cocke (spouse). For custody of Adelaide & Kathleen Rogers, daughters of Shep A. & Pattie S. Rogers (both deceased). Pattie S. Rogers was sister of Adelaide S. Cocke.

Exhibit: original copy of divorce certificate from Transylvania County, NC.

Add. plaintiff: Susan E. Boggess. M.R. Boggess and J.H. Boggess were married in 1859 and resided together until 1864. The defendant then became physically abusive towards the plaintiff, causing her to file for a divorce.

Ms. Pennington is seeking to recover $300.00 in child support from O.C. Ferguson who is the father of her two small boys (aged 3 and 1). For the past seven months prior to the filing of this suit, Ferguson has failed and refused to support the children. For the sake of the children, Pennington , who has legal custody of the boys, has supported them. Pennington and Ferguson are not married. See WT1749 for Breach of Promise to Marry suit.

Additional parties: Elizabeth Hawkins

Pearl and W. M. were previously married and had a son named John. Case concerns the shared custody arrangement. Pearl Walker claimed W. M. was not honoring the agreed upon custody arrangement.

Opinion only. Shelby County case found in East TN boxes.

Plaintiff was granted a divorce May 21, 1925 and custody of their only child, Elwanda Brooks (aged 8 as of this case). Since said divorce, defendant had not paid any form of child support. Plaintiff sued for financial assistance to raise Elwanda.