REA wanted to collect $741.13 due on a check executed by the Brookside Mills and drawn on the mills' account at the East Tennessee National Bank of Knoxville. Local REA agent John I. Dale had no authority to endorse a check made to his company, so he sent it to the main office in Atlanta where it was deposited. However, the check was not paid by the ETNB because it had suspended operations. Sole question being argued was whether plaintiff presented check for payment with reasonable time.

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.

"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."

Henry Williams is the father. Anna Vester is the mother.

Custody of child, Rosa, whose father- Hyman Scheffler, sues for custody over stepmother, Mrs. Adolph (Mattie) Schaffer.

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.

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

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.

The charge as stated is bastardy. Bounds is named by Nancy Bidwell to be the father of her female bastard child, and she is asking him to pay $90 for support and maintenance.

Linsley Arnold was charged with bastardy, having fathered a child with Mahala Cope of White County in 1874. He was charged to provide support for Mahala and their child.

Rachel Mitchell claimed that she gave birth to a child on June 18, 1875, and claimed that the father was Henry Bugg, who she was not married too. Bugg pleaded guilty to the charge, but the judge in the case decreed there was not enough proof.

Mother of the "illegitimate child" is not named.

Case also involves a taxation dispute. Case incomplete; account records only.

Defendant accused of having an illegitimate child with his wife's sister, Maria Belle Reed. Carpenter's wife was Nannie Carpenter.

Elizabeth (Betsy) Ann Williams, single woman, testified that Reed was the father of her illegitmate child, leading to prosecution of Reed for bastardy. Williams lived at Reed's house in the fall before the child was born. Lots of witnesses, including some who testified that, on one day, Reed's wife went to her brother-in-law's, Reed & Williams stayed at home, & Reed's children were seen playing in the yard & barn.

Cupp, a single woman, accused Maples with bastardy and asked the court to recognize him as the father. He admitted to having relations with her, but denied the child was his. Ruth asked for the maintenance of the child until he/she was 12. The child was born January 30, 1935. Ruth filed a pauper oath, which could result in the child becoming a county charge. Hon. Sue K. Hicks (prosecutor at the 1925 John T. Scopes trial) presided. Precedent cited was William Goddard v. State.

Charles Burton is accused of fathering the illegitimate child of Jennie Jones.