Tennessee Supreme Court Cases

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View Entry 1906 Dottie Clark Root et al.v. Railway Officials & Employees' Accident Association Shelby Insurance Claims and Policies

Additional Plaintiffs: Carrie May Wynne, Katie Ilma & Zettie Clark & Charles Clark, Jr. Plaintiffs children of Charles E. Clark, passenger conductor on I. C. Railroad. Suit to collect on $5000 life insurance policy taken out by Clark 21 Jan. 1899 & payable to his children. Clark accidentally shot to death by Mark Shanley at Montgomery Park on 8 April 1899; family did not know of insurance policy. Company refuses to pay on grounds that it did not receive notification of his death in stipulated time.

 West Range: 81 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 982 204 Order A Copy
View Entry 1906 T. J. Keyer v. Equitable Life Assurance Society Shelby Insurance Claims and Policies

Plaintiff was owed $3600 by Robert Roman who had no other means to secure the debt other than a life insurance policy with Equitable Life. Policy assigned to Keyer. Roman died 19 March 1903 in New Orleans; court ruled that the policy had been legally assigned to Keyer, but that Roman had committed suicide. Keyer appealing the decision. Mrs. Sallie Rhett Roman mother of Robert Roman; she was a sketch writer on the New Orleans "Times Democrat".

 West Range: 81 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 994 56 Order A Copy
View Entry 1906 Union Central Life Insurance Company v. Godfrey Frank & Company, et al. Shelby Insurance Claims and Policies

Mary Miller, Samuel Kahn and A. H. Frank. Life insurance policy on the life of William K. Lipscomb. No Docket Number. Cause of action: settling a life insurance policy.

 West Range: 81 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 981 54 Order A Copy
View Entry 1906 W. O. Sugg v. Toledo Fire & Marine Insurance Co. Shelby Insurance Claims and Policies

Plaintiff sued for $9,000 plus 25% penalty provided by law. Alleges that in 1904 he purchased from defendant $9000 worth of fire insurance on his lumber yard; insurance policies used as collateral security for indebtedness with the Memphis Savings Bank. Insured property destroyed by fire on 23 Dec. 1904. Insurance company has acted in bad faith by arbitrarily refusing to pay the loss or proceed with the adjustment.

 West Range: 81 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 994 295 Order A Copy
View Entry 1906 W. O. Sugg v. Toledo Fire & Marine Insurance Co. Shelby Insurance Claims and Policies

The claim involved a fire at a lumber yard near Hickman, Arkansas.

 West Range: 80 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1036 29 Order A Copy