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View Entry Year Case Name County Cause/Crime Case Description Division Location # Pages Order
View Entry 1930 Cora A. Jones v. Mrs. L. D. Whitaker, et al. Shelby Land, Confirmation of Ownership

Addtl dfnt: Bank of Commerce & Trust Company. Jones and Whitaker both bought lots from Samuel R. Waters and Wife, M. Waters. Jones asserted she bought a lot of land from the Joneses about three months before they sold the same lot to Whitaker. Jones sued to confirm ownership. In 2 folders.

 West Range: 77 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 2087 258 Order A Copy
View Entry 1907 Ida M. Stewart, et al. v. Bluff City Insurance Co. Shelby Land, Confirmation of Ownership

Additional plaintiffs: Martha Stewart, Ida M. Stewart II, William Meacham Stewart, Kenneth A. Stewart

 West Range: 81 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 956 98 Order A Copy
View Entry 1908 J. S. McTighe v. E. E. Elam& M. L. Selden Shelby Land, Confirmation of Ownership

Defendant E. E. Elam has alias B. E. Elam. Cause of action: plaintiff seeks the enforcement of a contract for the sale of a parcel of land and a deed to be produced for land sold in said contract.

 West Range: 80 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1146 283 Order A Copy
View Entry 1906 Mary I. Lyon v. John Blackwell, et al. Shelby Land, Confirmation of Ownership

Other defendants: C. L. Blackwell, Lew Price, Pattie G. Price; and minors John Adams Price and Sam Lyon Price.

 West Range: 80 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1029 130 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 Martha W. Bacon et al. v. R. J. Rawlilngs et al. Shelby Land, Confirmation of Ownership

Case concerns land in a Memphis subdivision that M. L. Bacon left in his will to his wife (defendant), daughter Lizzie B. Turner, and son-in-law Cooper Turner. Co-defendants: R. M. Buck; Maggie L. Winkler; J. W. Winkler; S. J. Shepherd, Trustee; George C. Bowen, Trustee; and Thomas H. Elliot.

 West Range: 82 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 688 184 Order A Copy
View Entry 1872 Patrick Burke et al. v. Thomas Ford, et al. Shelby Land, Confirmation of Ownership

Additional Plaintiffs: Denis and Ellen Molumbria; Michael and Bridget O'Bryan; Jeanna Ryan; James Dugan; Joanna Shehan; Ellen Shehan; and Catherine Shedan. Additional Defendants: William O. Herran and L. Ragin, Alice Ford.

 West Range: 84 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 43 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1913 Robert Watkins v. Josie Watkins Shelby Land, Confirmation of Ownership

Case is in two folders: first folder contains items used as exhibits in this case; second folder contains depositions and the remainder of the case material. The case involves whether the defendant, now divorced from the plaintiff, has rights to property they both previously owned jointly.

 West Range: 81 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 907 184 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 Rudolph C. Ehrlich v. Emma Weber, admr. Shelby Confirmation of Land Ownership

Emma Weber is the sister and administratrix of the estate of Adolph Weber, deceased. Ehrlich is her half-brother, son of their mother's first husband. He claims that Emma sold property which was rightfully his, having been inherited by Adolph Weber from his first wife, complainant's mother. He says he is rightfully entitled to share in any rents and profits from that property.

 West Range: 81 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 740 181 Order A Copy