McClain is the widow of John McClain and has two minor children. She accuses the city fathers of permitting a cannon to be placed and fired within the city limits. The cannon subsequently exploded, driving a large piece of metal through the wall of a grocery store, killing her husband who was standing in the store. She sued for $8,000 damages.

Exhibit materials are photographs of a road. Includes printed brief. Plaintiff is sued the defendant for damages in the sum of $12,000. The defendant employed the plaintiff's husband, Walter (dec.), as a mover on a truck and was involved in an accident while on the job where the company's truck flipped over and caught fire, causing the death of Walter. The plaintiff claims it was negligence by the defendant that caused the truck to crash because they failed to provide proper headlights for the truck.

Deceased, a minor, was killed when she fell into a ditch in Knoxville.

Additional Plaintiffs: Floyd Vaughn, Jr., Mrs. Verla Thomas.

Frank Taylor accused of killing Albert Swind's horse due to "unskillful and negligent shoeing".

The plaintiff was administrator of the estate of Arthur Matthews, an African-American who died as a result of an accident involving a faulty elevator. Page count does not include published materials.

Deceased: Jack Winburn Arrowood. Add. Defendants: McMinn Co. Board of Education, Clifford Miller.

Briefs and exception only.

Plaintiff is the administrator of the estate of Mattie Clement (dec.). Clement bought a ticket for a train owned and operated by the defendant. During her ride, the conductor became involved in a scuffle with a colored passenger and Clement was knocked down, trampled upon, and bruised and injured by other passengers on the car. She became gravely sick, lame and diseased, dying three weeks later. Suing for negligence and damages in the sum of $17,500 for the use of Clement's daughters.

Plaintiff's husband, Fred Stalsworth, deceased, was killed in a collision between an automobile owned by him and a locomotive owned by the plaintiffs, operated by W. R. Tomlinson. Suit was to recover damages for the death of Stalsworth and his automobile. Additional Defendant: W. R. Tomlinson. Exhibits include B&W photograph & Knoxville Traffic Regulations Ordinance No. 158. Photographs can be found in box ET 1320.

Deceased was killed when struck by an automobile owned and driven by Defendant. Plaintiff suing as admx. of estate of Floyd Burger, deceased.

Heaton, daughter of M. V. McPherson, dec. charged that poisonous gas leaked from McPherson's range & killed McPherson. Next of kin included two other daughters, Mrs. Munsey Mears and Myrtle Brownlow. Mears was preparing breakfast for her mother at the time of the leak. 2 fldrs. Exhibit materials include gas production data sheet, pressure gauge recording, tar & Sulphur samples, witness testimony and service cards. See ET Box 1498, an additional 490 pgs. Oversize exhibit in ET Oversize 21.

In April 1890, Lee Malcolm was crushed and killed between two passing cars owned by the plaintiff in error at the intersection of 9th and Market Street in Chattanooga. He was an employee of the company but not on duty at the time.

The Hargises were walking down a street when William O. Hargis collided with an awning brace, falling unconscious due to a fractured skull. He died the following day. Exhibits include b&w photos, large schematic drawings, bills, ordinance modifications, correspondences. Add'l Def's: Lawrence P. Brichetto, Myrtle A. Brichetto, Nita D. Clark. Case takes up entire box.

Origin of damages: Plaintiff accuses a false story printed by Defendant of leading to her deceased husband's death. Deceased: Fred D. Benton.

Cause of action: $50,000.00 damages. Julius Brett was a police officer for the City of Memphis. While Brett was searching for a criminal named Boehler, he shot S. I. Parsons, husband of Mrs. Virginia L. Parsons.

Origin of damages: Train in which Plaintiff was riding collided with train owned and operated by Defendant, killing Plaintiff's husband. Deceased: J. L. Tompkins.

Deceased: William Shepard. Deceased was killed while under the employ of business owned by Defendants; deceased's father is sued for damages. Add. Defendants: E. S. Falconberg, W. B. Harris, J. D. Walker, Austin Birne, L. T. Armstrong, G. F. Baker, W. P. Hopgood, B. F. Lovell, W. E. Byers, Isaac Rhea.

C. F. Craig father & admr. of Maggie Craig, about 22 months old. sued defendant for $1999.99 damages, charging railroad with negligence in her death on 25 May 1905. Maggie Craig struck & killed by train as she sat on the track or at the edge of the track. Defendants maintain plaintiff negligent for allowing Maggie to wander away from the house & onto the tracks. Also mentioned: Minnie Craig, mother of Maggie & Mrs. Lucy Fisher, her grandmother.

Plaintiff father & administrator of estate of Earl Hicks, sued defendant for $40,000 damages. Hicks a TN highway patrolman killed on 17 June 1936 when he &the motorcycle he was riding were run over by a bus owned by the defendant & operated by one of its employees. Hicks charges negligence, excessive speed & failure to observe traffic. Also mentioned: Cora Hicks, mother of Earl Hicks. See also ET 297, ET 566, ET 808.

The plaintiff sued to recover damages in the sum of $25,000 for the death of his son, Clopton Owen, killed in a street car accident. Page count does not include published materials. See WT 1183 for additional four folders.

Plaintiff is the administrator of the estate of Luther Kelley (dec.) and is sued for damages in the sum of $10,000 for a wrongful death. The deceased was riding his horse along a road and saw the defendant coming towards him in his automobile. The deceased went to one half of the road to let the defendant pass, but the defendant remained in the middle of the road, willfully and negligently hitting L. Kelley, making his horse fall on him and causing fatal injuries.

Plaintiff is the administrator of the estate of his minor child, Rose Brooks Morrison (dec.). Defendant is a partnership comprised of H. C. Harris & J. P. Payne. The plaintiff was driving with the deceased when a work truck owned and operated by an agent of the defendant struck their vehicle, killing his child. The defendant's truck was operating at an unlawful rate of speed and in a negligent manner. Plaintiff sued for damages in the sum of $25,000.00. Appeals are included. See ET 1482.

Cornelia's last name is also spelled Mayweathers in some of the documents. Cornelia sued for $15,000 after her husband, employed by TDWHC to operate a newly installed rip saw, was killed on the job. The saw "tore loose and broke away from its fixed place and ran through the body of the said Dalton Maywethers and on into the wall of the defendant's plant."