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View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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View Entry | 1871 | Alexander Kennedy Jr. v. The Hartford Fire Insurance Company et al. | Knox | Insurance Disputes |
Add. material in ET 1206. Add. defendants: H.L. McClung, R.M. McClung, & George W. Blackburn. The plaintiff had a policy of assurance with the defendant, to whom the plaintiff executed a note for said policy in the sum of $140 as premium. R.M. McClung was the agent assigned to the policy. In 1868, the plaintiff's store and trade goods, worth around $12,000, were consumed by a fire. The defendant failed to deliver the amount of coverage described in the policy. |
East | Range: 5 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 45 | 361 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1945 | American National Insurance Co. v. Lula McPhetridge | Knox | Insurance Disputes |
Plaintiff is seeking to have an insurance policy reconstrued, as the amount the policy was for was mistyped and Defendant is seeking reimbursement of that mistyped, higher amount. Exhibits include insurance application, insurance certificates, payment book, register sheets, b&w photographs, correspondence. |
East | Range: 6 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 481 | 346 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1930 | Agnes M. Graw v. The Travelers Protective Association | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Complainant was the beneficiary of her husband, William K. Graw, deceased. Exhibits: constitution and by-laws of Travelers, policy certificate, correspondence, claimant's statement. |
East | Range: 7 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 718 | 77 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1944 | American National Insurance Company v. Lula McFetridge | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Carrick McFetridge, Lula's husband, had a life insurance policy for $430. When he died in1944, the insurance company claimed that there had been a mistake on the policy: that it should have been written for $230. Because Lula & Carrick were illiterate, the insurance company faulted them for not noticing that a policy on a 48-year-old man could not be written for more than $230. (2 copies of case) |
East | Range: 8 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 797 | 36 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1867 | A. Kennedy Jr. v. The Home Insurance Company et al. and A. Kennedy Jr. v. The Hartford Fire Insurance Co. et al. | Knox | Insurance Disputes |
This is a dispute between A. Kennedy and two different insurance companies over a fire insurance policy and claim that he had for his business. He was a merchant doing business in Knox County. |
East | Range: 8 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 815 | 55 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1933 | American Insurance Company v. Cora Lee Widby | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Widby sued American Insurance for $1250.00 plus interest. Widby was the widow of Basil T. Widby, dec. who was killed in an accident with a Mack truck. American Insurance claims that the life insurance policy issued to Widby was in fact issued after he was killed rather than before. Therefore, American Insurance decided that Widby was not due payment. |
East | Range: 10 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1556 | 347 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1933 | Alexander Brandau Jr. et al. v. United Mutual Life Ins. Co. et al | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Add pla: Lanier Brandau. Add def: Elizabeth Sneed. Joseph W. Sneed dec. was the uncle of the plaintiffs and brother of the def. Plaintiffs claim Joseph maintained an insurance policy that listed them as beneficiaries. Plaintiffs complain that upon Joseph's death, Elizabeth Sneed contacted the insurance co. to withhold payment. Said company notes that Joseph had attempted to remove his nephews from the policy but did not provide the correct paperwork. Exhibit materials include insurance documents. |
East | Range: 10 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1552 | 165 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1923 | Addie Harrell v. Fidelity Insurance Co. | Knox | Insurance Disputes |
Incomplete case file: testimony only. Because only testimony is present, case details are difficult to discern. It seems that Mrs. Addie Prince Harrell had trouble with her eyes, perhaps an astigmatism. She seems to have gotten into an accident, but was not badly harmed. She was diagnosed as neurasthenic. What she claimed to the insurance company is not stated here. Much questioning about glasses and nervous disorder. |
East | Range: 5 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 13a | 328 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1934 | Ausie Pilkington v. Prudential Insurance Co. | Knox | Insurance Disputes |
Rhonda Pilkington worked for the American Cigar Box Lumber Company, but was supposedly fired when she had to go to Jonesboro for a few days. Incomplete case file; assignment of errors only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 17 | 7 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1912 | Addie Harrell, et al. v. Fidelity & Casualty Company of New York | Knox | Insurance Disputes |
Incomplete case file; pages 318 - 670, and testimony. Addie Prince Harrell was employed by a dentist creating crowns and bridge work on an emory wheel. Harrell had trouble with her eyes, perhaps an astigmatism. She was in an accident, then diagnosed neurasthenic. She made a claim to her insurance company that was challenged in court. Case related to ET Box 13a, & ET 98. |
East | Range: 5 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 21a | 681 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1939 | Annie Burch, Beneficiary v. Lincoln Income Life Insurance Co. | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Exhibits: insurance form, policy certificate, release and settlement of death claim, death certificate. Complainant filed to recover the proceeds of an insurance policy on the life of her brother, Calvin Browner, dec. |
East | Range: 7 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 566 | 203 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1935 | American National Insurance Co. v. Cora Lee Widby | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies | East | Range: 8 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 892 | 460 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1935 | Aetna Life Insurance Company v. Clara Mournan, admr. of William Mournan, dec. | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies | East | Range: 9 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1059 | 147 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1871 | Alexander Kennedy, Jr. v. The Hartford Fire Insurance Company et al. | Knox | Insurance Disputes |
Add. material in ET 45. 2 folders. Add. defendants: H.L. McClung, R.M. McClung, & George W. Blackburn. The plaintiff had a policy of assurance with the defendant, to whom the plaintiff executed a note for said policy in the sum of $140 as premium. R.M. McClung was the agent assigned to the policy. In 1868, the plaintiff's store and trade goods, worth around $12,000, were consumed by a fire. The defendant failed to deliver the amount of coverage described in the policy. |
East | Range: 9 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1206 | 447 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1937 | Annie B. Smith v. American National Insurance Company | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Smith took out a life insurance policy on her husband Lawrence for $500. The insurance company claims that due to his physical state at the time of filing, that payment on the policy cannot be made, that he was ill when the policy was taken out, and therefore uninsurable. Mr. Smith suffered from ulcers, a perforation of the stomach, and other digestive problems. |
East | Range: 10 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1557 | 448 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1927 | Bales & Learn v. New Amsterdam Casualty Co. | Knox | Insurance Disputes |
Incomplete case file. Cover page only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 6 | 1 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1939 | Bessie Barrett v. National Life & Accident Insurance Company | Knox | Insurance Disputes |
This was a suit to recover as beneficiary on a policy of industrial life insurance upon the life of Willie Barrett. |
East | Range: 7 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 630 | 199 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1889 | Butternut Lumber Co. v. Knoxville Fire Insurance Co., Island Home Insurance Co., and East Tennessee Insurance Co. | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
The plaintiff sued the defendants insurance companies for failure to pay out according to their policies following a fire. Exhibit is the fire insurance policy that Knoxville Fire Insurance Co. issued to the Butternut Lumber Co. for $1250 in coverage dated for Nov. 5, 1886 |
East | Range: 19 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1834 | 326 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1935 | Bettie Smith v. Life & Casualty Insurance Co. | Knox | Insurance Disputes |
Plaintiff, who had a policy with the defendant, sued to collect $25 in unpaid claims plus a 25% penalty. Plaintiff also had policies with 3 other insurance companies & had filed claims with all of them. Defendant argued that her carrying aggregate insurance of over $7 violated her policy contract with them, & under the terms of the contract they were liable for only the pro rata part. Defendant had paid some of her claims before learning of the other insurance policies. |
East | Range: 8 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 884 | 114 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1932 | Boyd J. Shipley v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. | Knox | Insurance Disputes |
Bessie M. Shipley was an employee of the Standard Knitting Mills and was enrolled in the group life insurance program provided by said employer through the def. and to which the pla. was the beneficiary. Bessie became ill and died on Oct. 28, 1931 in Knoxville General Hospital. Pla. claims the def., in breach of contract, has refused to payout the said policy. Exhibit materials include correspondence and employment information. Bessie had a 7th grade education and made $0.21 per hour. |
East | Range: 10 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1457 | 107 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1927 | C. S. Reeder v. National Liberty Insurance Co. | Knox | Insurance Disputes |
Reeder purchased an auto insurance policy from National Liberty in 1927, insuring against loss by fire up to $5k if driven, & $10k if stored. He then sold the car to Hugh Calloway retaining the title for deferred payments. While in Calloway's possession, the car burned in a fire, destroying it completely. The insurance company would not pay the benefit, and this suit was filed to recover it. |
East | Range: 5 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 19a | 23 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1890 | Curtis Cullen, et al v. Mary E. Lloyd, et al | Knox | Insurance Disputes |
Add plaintiffs: J. C. Heudgings, W. A. White, W. E. Norrell. Add defendants: Heugh N. Lloyd, an infant. Orren D. Lloyd, dec. died leaving several insurance policies. The plaintiffs were trustees on the policies suing for various things. |
East | Range: 19 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1815 | 136 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1942 | Charles A. Monday v. Locomotive Engineers & Conductors Mutual Protective Association | Knox | Insurance Disputes |
Plaintiff seeks payout of discharge insurance after being fired from his job. Exhibits include membership application and witness statements. |
East | Range: 6 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 485 | 45 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1940 | Clyde Lemarr v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Disability claim. Exhibits include insurance documents, policies, and payment schedules, doctor's certificate, newspaper clipping. |
East | Range: 6 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 487 | 296 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1917 | Continental Insurance Co. of New York et al.v. R. W. Perry | Knox | Insurance Disputes |
Add. Plaintiff: Fidelity Phoenix Fire Insurance Co. |
East | Range: 7 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 741 | 4 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1894 | Crescentia Schmid v. Virginia Fire & Marine Insurance Company | Knox | Insurance Disputes | East | Range: 9 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1080 | 9 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1937 | Dr. H. E. Christenberry v. American Indemnity Company | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Christenberry was in a car wreck, he claims he was covered, American Indemnity claims he wasn't |
East | Range: 8 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1036 | 59 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1905 | E. Kobler v. Metropolitan Life | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Incomplete case. |
East | Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 2a | 2 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1947 | Emil A. Schaad v. New York Life Insurance Co. | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Plaintiff seeks full disability payment on policy held by him. Exhibits include correspondences, x-rays, insurance documents. Xrays located in ET Oversize Box 14. |
East | Range: 7 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 625 | 331 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1936 | Erouth Buis v. Universal Life Insurance Co. | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Erouth Buis (female) took out a sick policy, paid the premium, and fell ill the next morning. Three attending physician certificates state she suffered from pleurisy. Erouth was confined to bed about 4 weeks. Universal claimed she was sick at the time the policy was made. Testimony summaries: Erouth Buis, Dr. A. J. Bacote & Dr. O. B. Taylor. The doctors were identified as graduates of Meharry Medical College. Exhibits include policy & physician reports. Buis lived at 337 Bell St., Knoxville. |
East | Range: 8 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 962 | 34 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1933 | Eva M. Buckles v. John Hancock | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
The plaintiff after the issuance of said group policy and while in the employ of the American Glanzstoff Corporation and while said policy was full effect became totally disabled. The defendant failed to furnish the payment. |
East | Range: 20 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1576 | 133 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1905 | Emma E. Whiteside v. Supreme Ruling of the Fraternal Mystic Circle | Knox | Insurance Disputes |
The def was a benefit fund insurance company & had issued Whiteside's husband a fund of $2k payable to her upon his death. Her husband died with all premiums & dues up to date. They refused to pay stating that Charles Whiteside was in poor health when he signed the paperwork. Whiteside sued to recover the benefit due her from claim. |
East | Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 11a | 65 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1936 | Eleanor G. Caldwell v. Locomotive Engineers Mutual Life& Accident Insurance Association | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Case in 3 folders. Folder 3 is exhibit materials. |
East | Range: 8 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 867 | 733 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1915 | Foster Brothers, Barnett Co, et al. v. Insurance Co. of North America, et al. | Knox | Fire Insurance Policies |
Foster Brothers, a clothing & notions manufacturer on Gay Street in Knoxville suffered a total loss by fire. The insurance companies listed below refused to honor their claims. Foster Brothers sued to recover the benefits due them from their policies. Cases combined w/ pl's v.: Fire insurance Assoc. of Philadelphia, German Insurance Company of New York, Commonwealth Insurance Company of New York, Caledonian Insurance Company, Stuyvesant Insurance, Phoenix Insurance, American Central Insurance. 5 fldrs. |
East | Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 13 | 989 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1940 | Frances Willard Gardner v. National Casualty Company | Knox | Insurance Disputes |
Defendant refused to pay out a medical policy held by plaintiff, on grounds that immediate cause of medical treatment to be covered occurred before policy was issued. Ruling in favor of plaintiff, upheld. Exhibits include: Insurance policy, medical records, insurance claim. |
East | Range: 6 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 321 | 121 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1934 | Frank Naill v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Naill sued for the sum of $1020.80 plus interest on a group policy of health insurance issued by defendant to Jefferson Woolen Mills of Knoxville, Naill's employer. Exhibit: policy certificate, hours and wages for employee Frank Naill. |
East | Range: 7 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 744 | 271 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1932 | F. E. Fisher & Co. v. Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co. & Mrs. Nelle Downing Grebe | Knox | Insurance Disputes |
Add'l documents located in ET 86 and exhibits in ET 1367. An insurance policy was taken out on the life of Paul M. Grebe, the husband of Nelle Downing Grebe. N. Grebe claims the proceeds of the policy as the beneficiary under an insurance conservation agreement. The pla. make their claim under and assignment made to them by P. Grebe a few days before his death. P. Grebe was an employee of the pla. and was charged with embezzling money and forced to sign the policy over. 2 folders |
East | Range: 10 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1363 | 414 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1935 | Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company v. O. B. Henderson, Trustee | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies | East | Range: 8 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 861 | 102 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1941 | Gladys Smith Bryan v. Aetna Life Insurance Company | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Plaintiff is the widow of Augustus P. Bryan and the mother of Billie Bryan and Betty Jo Bryan, minors. In 1935, the deceased took out a policy with the defendant for $5,000 and died in 1936 under the full force of the policy. The defendants refused to pay the full benefits of the policy, inflicting additional expenses and injury upon the plaintiff. Exhibits include 4 photographs of exterior and interior views of a family living on a shanty boat that has been moved onto land. |
East | Range: 6 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 292 | 1399 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1943 | George Smiley v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company | Knox | Insurance Disputes |
Exhibits: policy certificates, hospital documents, check, physicians' notes/forms, correspondence, claims paperwork, |
East | Range: 7 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 622 | 672 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1940 | Gladys Hammer v. American United Life Insurance Company | Knox | Insurance Disputes |
Complainant sued to collect on a policy as the beneficiary of James W. Hammer, dec. Exhibits: policy certificate, contract, correspondence, checks, applications. |
East | Range: 7 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 630 | 294 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1940 | Gaut-DeVault Co. v. London Guarantee& Accident Co., Ltd. | Knox | Insurance Disputes |
Exhibits include insurance documents, weather summary, telegraph, correspondences. |
East | Range: 6 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 311 | 429 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1938 | G. Rupert Reynolds v. New York Life Insurance Co. | Knox | Insurance Disputes | East | Range: 7 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 760 | 184 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1935 | Globe & Republic Insurance Co. of America v. C. W. Lester | Knox | Insurance Disputes | East | Range: 8 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 847 | 78 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1914 | Hal S. Harris, exe. v. Security Mutual Life Insurance Company | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 92 | 3 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1932 | Helen May Romines by next friend v. The Preferred Accident Insurance Co. of N. Y. | Knox | Insurance Disputes |
Next Friend: James C. Romines. Plaintiff received a previous judgment against John A. Huff, admr. Of Will Gillard, dec. in a suit to recover damages for an accident caused by the said Gillard who was operating a car owned by Bill Kyle. This suit was filed to recover payment from the insurance company contracted to insure said automobile. Exhibit materials include a Preferred Accident Insurance Company automobile liability policy. |
East | Range: 10 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1444 | 55 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1944 | Herbert Strader v. Aetna Life Insurance Company, et al. | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Additional Defendant: Robert C. Clonts, Jr. Complainant sought to recover the total and permanent disability benefits under two policies of life insurance. Exhibits: newspaper clipping, two policies, census record copies, written statement, agent's report, marriage certificate. |
East | Range: 7 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 540 | 377 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1936 | In The Matter of the Estate of Isadore B. Finklestein, Dec. | Knox | Insurance Disputes |
Case Name incomplete. |
East | Range: 8 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 982 | 53 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1941 | John Huffine, admr. v. Grand Court of Calanthe | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Includes insurance policy. |
East | Range: 6 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 288 | 50 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1938 | James C. Patton, et al. v. Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Knox County | Knox | Insurance Disputes |
Exhibits include insurance documents, cancelled checks. Additional plaintiff: Erastus E. Patton. |
East | Range: 7 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 701 | 130 | Order A Copy |