Tennessee Supreme Court Cases

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View Entry Year Case Name County Cause/Crime Case Description Division Location # Pages Order
View Entry 1899 B. F. Bridges & wife, et al. v. Alfred Greener Henderson Land and Title Dispute

Additional plaintiffs: Ada, wife B. F. Bridges; Lum & Meek Greener. Ada Bridges, Lum & Meek Greener children of John Greener (d. 1896) & wife Martha, (d. Carroll Co., March 1897). Plaintiffs seeking to recover land deeded to father by J. N. Richardson & wife, Malinda, on 17 Oct. 1877. Argue land theirs by right of inheritance. Deft. maintains land had been previously sold to satisfy judgment against Richardson. Purchaser then sold land to Alfred Greener & plaintiffs have no claim to property.

 West Range: 81 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 755 73 Order A Copy
View Entry 1899 C. Johnson & wife v. D. A. Campenton Shelby Land and Title Dispute West Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 721 37 Order A Copy
View Entry 1899 Edwin C. Kimball v. M. Nealis Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Other names in the case: Clara Lee Bailey & John J. Bailey, who earlier owned the disputed property.

 West Range: 81 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 746 106 Order A Copy
View Entry 1899 E. G. Robinson v. W. W. Bierce Shelby Land and Title Dispute West Range: 81 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 753 300 Order A Copy
View Entry 1899 Emma C. Peck, et al. v. East Tennessee Lumber & Mining Co., et al. Sevier Land and Title Dispute

Additional Parties are unlisted.

 East Range: 5 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 36 4 Order A Copy
View Entry 1899 Emma Peck, et al. v. J. D. Murphy, admr., et al.and C. H. Johnson, et al.v. J. D. Murphy, admr., et al. Jefferson Land, Contract Dispute

Case file is incomplete.

 East Range: 5 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 36 6 Order A Copy
View Entry 1899 Emma C. Peck v. East Tennessee Lumber& Mining Co., et al Sevier Land and Title Dispute

Case is incomplete; opinion only.

 East Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 88 21 Order A Copy
View Entry 1899 Ella Ketchum v. Workingmen's Building & Loan Assoc. Shelby Land, Contract Dispute

Case concerns land given to family members in the will of James Ketchum, deceased, and the subsequent sale of that land. Case is in three folders.

 West Range: 82 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 644 333 Order A Copy
View Entry 1899 Francis McKing v. Joseph Culwell Land and Title Dispute

Case file is incomplete; opinion only.

 East Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 91 2 Order A Copy
View Entry 1899 George Yarbro v. Jonathan Luton, et al. Decatur Land and Title Dispute

Case re: recovery of money alleged to have been paid on purchase of tract of land sold by order of Chancery Court, Decatur Co. TN, 1874, previously owned by James L. Yarbro, dec.

 West Range: 81 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 754 841 Order A Copy
View Entry 1899 Hickory Miller, et al. v. Henry Bonds, et al. Madison Land and Title Dispute

Additional Plaintiffs: Malinda Miller, wife Hickory Miller; Henry Butler & wife, Rose. Additional def..: Lucy Bonds, wife Henry. Plaintiffs seeking to recover realty purchased by Wm. Hillman, father of Malinda & Rose, from Wm. E. Butler before Civil War. Deft. maintains property had been sold for taxes & purchased by Lucy Bonds, wife Henry. Children of Wm. & Lettie Hillsman: Malinda, Rose, Irene, wife of Turner DeBerry & Young Hillsman who is believed dead. Wm. Hillsman died ca. 1863.

 West Range: 81 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 755 17 Order A Copy
View Entry 1899 Hickory Miller, et al. v. Henry Bonds, et al, Madison Land and Title Dispute

Additional Plaintiffs: Malinda Miller, wife Hickory; Henry Butler & wife, Rose. Rose & Malinda daughters Wm. Hillsman, dec. ca. 1863 & Lettie Hillsman. Plaintiffs suing to recover land purchased by Wm. Hillsman from Wm. E. Butler before Civil War, argue property theirs by right of inheritance. Defts. maintain land was sold to pay taxes & purchased by Lucy Bonds, wife of Henry Bonds & they no longer have a claim to it. Wm. Hillsman's heirs: Rose; Malinda; Irene, wife Turner Deberry & Young Hillsman.

 West Range: 81 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 755 17 Order A Copy
View Entry 1899 J. L. Bickerstaff v. H. J. Wright & J. M. Hughes Crockett Land, Contract Dispute

Bickerstaff sued claiming he had paid part of the purchase price for a piece of land sold by the defendants but they had not delivered a deed to the land to Bickerstaff.

 West Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 724 17 Order A Copy
View Entry 1899 John R. Diggs v. Leighton B. King et al. Henry Land and Title Dispute

Additional defendants: W. J. King, Dr. Hinson Plew, Earley Plew, and Reubin Rein.

 West Range: 81 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 759 263 Order A Copy
View Entry 1899 James C. Marley v. W. H. Foster et ux. Lauderdale Land and Title Dispute

Plaintiff claims to own half of undivided interest in a 416 acres track of land lying in the Mississippi River Bottom known as Ammons land.

 West Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 703 201 Order A Copy
View Entry 1899 Mollie C. McElya v. John C. Hill et al. and John C. Hill v. Mollie C. McElya et al Carroll Land and Title Dispute

Fellow Defendant with Mollie C. McElya: Ed McElya. Fellow Defendant with John C. Hill: John C. Hill's wife who remains unnamed.

 West Range: 82 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 678 39 Order A Copy
View Entry 1899 Melvina Barnard v. C. H. Legere & W. B. Beckler Hancock Land and Title Dispute

Barnard inherited widow's dower from death of her husband 16 years prior to this suit. W.R. Mills got a judgment against her. C.H. Legere purchased the judgement & tried to foreclose on it. In order to fulfill the sale, the sheriff ordered a survey of Barnard's dower. Legere & Beckler were accused of leaving Barnard the least valuable portion of land, granting Legere the rest.

 East Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 7 6 Order A Copy
View Entry 1899 Mrs. C. M. Amos v. Joe S. McCorkle et al. Dyer Land and Title Dispute

Additional defendants: T. M. Carnes and J. A. Romine

 West Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 725 117 Order A Copy
View Entry 1899 Reuben Elliott, et al. v. William L. Elliott Henderson Land and Title Dispute

Other plaintiffs: W. H. Elliott

 West Range: 81 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 752 70 Order A Copy
View Entry 1899 S. W. Lafon v. Stacker J. Taylor Weakley Land and Title Dispute

Exhibit includes 1898 stamps.

 West Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 715 83 Order A Copy
View Entry 1899 William Bullock v. W. C. Edwards, et al. Anderson Land and Title Dispute

Contains brief for complainant. Additional defendant: Butt Mountain Coal Company. Plaintiff maintained he never sold his interest in the property to Edwards, who subsequently sold tract to Coal Co.

 East Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 6a 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1899 William Witherspoon v. V. A. Rogers Madison Land and Title Dispute West Range: 81 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 735 50 Order A Copy
View Entry 1899 W. W. Johnson, et al. v. Lilburn Johnson, et al. Land and Title Dispute

Father abandoned lands and left state. Son Lilburn remained and farmed land in belief the land then became his. Some years later father returned and tried to reclaim the land. Document defends rights of father to the land.

 East Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 7 5 Order A Copy