Tennessee Supreme Court Cases

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View Entry 1908 Adam Harper et al. v. Bate Johnson Dyer Land

Additional Plaintiffs: Charity Harper, Catherine Benton, James and Tilithia Crilley, Charles and Mary E. Mead, Wm. J. Wallace, James R. Emmerson, L.O. Emmerson, Melissa Vickers, Fannie Rutter, Thomas and Dora Holt . . . all from the state of Indiana. Additional Plaintiffs: G.W. Dougan [Missouri]; Charles and Sarah A. Williamson, Fred Binkley [Kansas]. The defendant was from Dyer County.

 West Range: 81 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 968 187 Order A Copy
View Entry A. M. Stevens Lumber Co. et al. v. S. B. Carson et al. Dyer Land and Title Dispute

Additional plaintiffs: George E. Scott, E. M. King , and J. M. Brackin, Draper & Rice Suerty. Additional defendants: Sarah Carson, Mrs. Lou P. Wardlow, Will Via and M. W. Pate 2 folders.

 West Range: 81 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 750 280 Order A Copy
View Entry 1911 Bose Pillow v Board of Mayor & Alderman of Dyersburg Dyer Land and Title Dispute

Included is a reply brief of counsel for defendant in error

 West Range: 80 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1252 363 Order A Copy
View Entry 1889 Chesapeake, Ohio & Southwestern Rail Road Co. et al. v. Zach T. Wright Dyer Land, Contract Dispute

Other complainant is the Newport News & Mississippi Valley Co. Suit concerns a railroad right of way granted to a previous railroad company by a previous land-owner. The complainants say the Wright, the current land owner, continues to live in a house that he knows is within the boundaries of the railroad's right of way. Plat map drawn on oil cloth.

 West Range: 83 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 440 165 Order A Copy
View Entry 1925 Citizens Bank v. Mercantile Bank & Trust Co., et al. Dyer Recovery of Land/Property

Additional defendants: A.W. Jones, W.T. Crisswell, J.E. Manley, and N.W. Calcutt. This case involved the repeated selling and shifting ownership of two mules. The Citizens Bank sued to claim ownership and immediate possession of the mules. Plaintiff claims it was the holder of the initial note and held title over the property, and any later titles created are and void.

 West Range: 78 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1786 91 Order A Copy
View Entry 1875 Charles C. Moss v. Joseph W. Allen Dyer Land and Title Dispute West Range: 84 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 36 0 Order A Copy
View Entry Charles N. Holden v. Lonnie Burke, et al. Dyer Land and Title Dispute

Sallie F. Fowlkes and heirs were the owners of the 250 acres of the John G. Blount 1000 acre grant and had been holding deed since 1866. The Blount grant was founded on military warrant in 1827. Defendants are stating that the plaintiff's purchase is void Date is unknown.

 Middle Range: 34 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 646 31 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 D. F. Sawyer& wife v. T. C. Gordon Dyer Recovery of Land/Property

Defendant's brief only. Issue involves the sheriff's sale of property to which complainants claim to have a life estate. They are asking that the land be returned to them as a homestead.

 West Range: 80 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 997 10 Order A Copy
View Entry 1925 Delora Woodson v. Simon Jones, et al. Dyer Land, Partition of

Addtl defs: Asa Jones, Belvy Wynne, Mack Wynn, Gladys Light, Buster Light, Miss Carolina Gerster Neal, indv. and exe. of Tom W. Neal, Hill or Hilda Walker, and the unknown heirs of Hilda Walker. Woodson was an heir of James Walker, and recognized owner of one-half his plot of land. Jones sued to have Woodson's mother removed as heir in Simon Jones, et al. v. Hilda Walker. Woodson is asserting her legal right to half the plot.

 West Range: 78 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1876 97 Order A Copy
View Entry 1912 Dyer County Realty Company v. W. H. Harber Dyer Sale of Land/Property

The plaintiff contracted with the defendant to purchase the defendant's tract of land in Dyer County, which the defendant supposedly sold to someone else.

 West Range: 80 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1304 103 Order A Copy
View Entry 1880 E. P. Harris et al.v. Peter Ford Dyer Land and Title Dispute

Exhibit plat oversized located in WT Oversize Box 1. Additional plaintiffs: James M. Harris, Andrew J. Harris, Bettie A. Harris, L. Harrison, Evelyn Harrison, and M. D. Welch

 West Range: 84 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 37 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 Estey Organ Company et al. v. S. A. Wood et al Dyer Land and Title Dispute

Brief and petition for writ of error. Case incomplete.

 West Range: 80 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1009 37 Order A Copy
View Entry 1882 Francis White v. James Hughes et al Dyer Land, Sale of

Additional defendants: W. F. Hughes, Daniel Hughes. Additional parties: Thomas Marshall, John C. McLamor, Henry Dixon

 West Range: 84 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 78 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1877 F. B. Gallion v. H. L. Harwell et al. Dyer Land, Contract Dispute

Plaintiff claims that Harwell and his mother, Mrs. Lucy A. Harwell, the co-defendant, still owe him part of the purchase price for a piece of property they bought from him. The seller's agent neglected, by mistake, to draw up an appropriate lien at the time of the sale.

 West Range: 84 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 100 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1884 Francis White et al. v. Harding Mayberry et al. Dyer Land and Title Dispute

Additional Plaintiffs: W. B. Sampson, Sallie A. Pate, Mathew W. Pate, and Susan Ann Sampson. Additional Defendants: Mary Maryberry, B. S. Thomas, and Henry Thomas.

 West Range: 83 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 268 480 Order A Copy
View Entry 1910 George W. King v. Mengel Box Company Dyer Land

300 acre of land.

 West Range: 80 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1230 199 Order A Copy
View Entry 1875 Gallaway v. Amos Woodward et al. Dyer Land and Title Dispute

Other plaintiffs: Rainey. Other defendants: William Riley Peel; Watson B. Sampson

 West Range: 84 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 28 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1883 George Adain Talley et al.v. Clement R. Jameson et al Dyer Land

Additional parties unclear

 West Range: 83 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 222 151 Order A Copy
View Entry 1872 Hickman & Sipple v. F. W. Moore et al. Dyer Land and Title Dispute West Range: 84 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 15 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1875 Hugh L. W. Turney v. William Moore Dyer Land and Title Dispute West Range: 84 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 28 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1896 H. C. Lewis, admr., of William Harper, dec. v. C. E. Turnley Dyer Land, Promissory Note

Document is legal brief.

 West Range: 83 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 451 35 Order A Copy
View Entry 1872 Isaac Sampson v. George W. L. Marr, Jr. et al.s Dyer Land and Title Dispute

The dispute seems to be over a deed. George W L Marr presumably Sr. died leaving a plot of land and his heirs sued Sampson who alleged that he owned the land through a tax title. said Sampson lost the circuit court case partially because he did not poses the original copy of the deed. Sampson alleged that the land was passed out of the hands of George W L Marr in the fiscal year 1848.

 West Range: 84 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 16 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1875 James P. Harris v. Mrs. A. G. Beadles, et al.. Dyer Land and Title Dispute

Additional Defendants: D. J. Beadles.

 West Range: 84 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 27 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1897 James King et al. v. Charles Coleman et al. Dyer Land

Additional Plaintiff: John Hall Additional Defendants: Augustus Coleman, W. A. Hodge, Thomas H. Phillips, R. W. Finney, F. G. Baker and W. P. S. Price

 West Range: 82 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 518 73 Order A Copy
View Entry 1938 Jesse Lane v. N. W. McCoy, et al.. Dyer Land and Title Dispute

Additional defendants: Lena Mitchell and husband, Mrs. Nell Springer, E. F. Hall, Mrs. Ella Jones, Buck Hall and S. Springer.

 West Range: 80 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1214 407 Order A Copy
View Entry 1902 J. D. Ferrell & wife v. Samuel Rogers & wife Dyer Land and Title Dispute West Range: 81 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 881 238 Order A Copy
View Entry 1912 J. A. Fowlkes, et al. v. J. E. Harrell, et al. Dyer Land and Title Dispute

Additional plaintiffs: Lyda Fowlkes, Thos. C. Fowlkes, Imogene Fowlkes, Mrs. Mary Johnson, Marvin Johnson. Additional defendants: H. E. Harrell.

 West Range: 80 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1099 250 Order A Copy
View Entry 1927 J. L. Sorrell v. Mrs. J. B. Wood et al. Dyer Land

other defendants: Lucille Dodson, Cecil Dodson, Laverne and Oscar Evans, Marshall Wood. The complainant owned a 25 acre tract of land which was bordered on the south by the lands of J. B. Wood, heirs. J. B. Wood owned 300 acres lying just south of and adjoining the land of the complainant., Newt Sorrell and Mrs. Jackson. Petitioner asked that a strip of land 30 ft. wide and running south from his south line to State hwy 20 be set apart by metes and bounds for easement or right of way.

 West Range: 77 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1935 88 Order A Copy
View Entry 1879 L. Terrie Walker v. T. S. Chamberlein Dyer Land, Sale of

Additional parties: Samuel R. Latta

 West Range: 84 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 127 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1911 Laura Walker, et al. v. Burton H. Pierce Dyer Land and Title Dispute

Other plaintiffs: A. T. Caudle; W. C. Davis. Case in 2 folders. Three oversize hand drawn maps included.

 West Range: 80 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1231 476 Order A Copy
View Entry 1925 Mrs. Victoria Erwin v. S. Granger Latta, et al. Dyer Land and Title Dispute

Addl defendant: A. P. Ford. Victoria Erwin is the widow of D. F. Sawyer. She's currently married to Thomas Erwin. Sawyer owned a house and lot in the 4th Civil District of Dyer Co. On July 25, 1900, she and Sawyer "executed to one W. S. Coover, a paper writing which upon its face was a deed, but was construed by this Hon. Court to be a deed of trust." Coover "transferred by quit claim deed to defendant A. P. Ford, said house and lot." Latta is an attorney representing some creditors of Sawyer.

 West Range: 77 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1791 72 Order A Copy
View Entry 1883 Mary E. Crafton v. G. W. Parker Dyer Land and Title Dispute

Additional parties: Richard L. Crafton

 West Range: 83 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 231 207 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 1907 Mengal Box Company v. L. M. Mitchell et al Dyer Land, Contract Dispute

Additional defendants: Rob H. Chester, C. G. Bond, and Robert I. Chester who are sued as individuals and as executors of Robert I. Chester, deceased. Cause of action: land, contract dispute concerning guarantees contained therein.

 West Range: 80 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1037 140 Order A Copy
View Entry 1914 N. B. Graves& wife v. Birmingham& Northwestern Railway Company Dyer Land

The plaintiff had a strip of land that she says was wrongful taken possession of and appropriated by the defendant for the purpose of laying its tracts.

 West Range: 79 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1357 35 Order A Copy
View Entry 1874 Nancy H. Tarkington v. John H. Moss Dyer Land and Title Dispute West Range: 84 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 27 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1904 P. L. Tipton, et al. v. Lee Ann Light, et al. Dyer Land and Title Dispute

Additional parties: Gyp Light, Parr, Nolen & Company, W. G. Dyer, N. B. Tarrant, Nazareth Light. African American defendants.

 West Range: 81 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 902 32 Order A Copy
View Entry 1876 Smith Parks, et al. v. S. A. Simmons, et al. Dyer Land and Title Dispute

Additional plaintiffs: Hamilton, Banks J. W. Buter Additional defendants: J. D. Walker.

 West Range: 84 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 35 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1877 Samuel R. Latta v. Richard R. Watson Dyer Land, Sale of West Range: 84 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 108 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1908 S. L. Fleischhauer& her husband C. A. Fleischhauer v. H. M. Light Heirs et al. Dyer Land and Title Dispute

Defendants: Oran Light, Iva Light, and Mrs. H. M. Light, T. A. Anderson, J. W. Rawles, guardian of Iva Light.

 West Range: 81 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 975 238 Order A Copy
View Entry 1913 Sarah Jane Eason v. W. G. Burks et al Dyer Land and Title Dispute

Additional plaintiffs: Walter S. Draper. Additional defendants: J. P. King, Sheriff of Dyer County, George E. Scott Lumber Company, Wilson Concrete Company, Edward Buford, C.N. Buford. Land located south of Dyersburg and Eaton Road including 30 acres and house. Eason's husband, deceased: J.S. Eason

 West Range: 79 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1358 26 Order A Copy
View Entry 1920 S. A. Walters et al.v. A. J. Henning et al Dyer Land and Title Dispute

Add. Plaintiff: Nanni Walters. Add. Defendants: S. T. Viar, T. A. Anderson, R. L. Hubbard, & W. E. Hubbard. Plaintiffs own a tract of land in the said county, left to them by James Hart (dec'd) grandfather of the plaintiffs. The defendants recently came onto the property and unlawfully cut down and took away timber to the value of $3,382. Defendants state the land was conveyed to them from S. L. Fleischhauer, who claimed a deed from A. J. Henning for 1/6 of the land.

 West Range: 78 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1633 283 Order A Copy
View Entry 1921 Thad L. King et al.v. King Revere Johnson Dyer Land

Add. Plaintiffs: Mrs. Bertha Johnson & Hart Johnson. The defendant is a minor of 12 years without a regular guardian and is the only child of the additional plaintiffs. T. L. King and B. Johnson are the children of J. L. King (dec'd). Plaintiffs filed to assign a guardian ad litem for the defendant to be made a party and that the court decree that the plaintiffs each take a fee simple title in the lands devised to them under J. L. King's will and they have the right to sell the property without limitation

 West Range: 78 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1633 67 Order A Copy
View Entry 1874 William Galloway & W. S. Rainey v. Isaac Sampson et al. Dyer Land and Title Dispute

Comp's: William Galloway, W.S. Rainey, & W. G. Rainey; Defs: Isaac Sampson, W.B. Sampson, Joseph Mitchell, James McCoy, Daniel E. Parker, J.H. Humphrey, S.P. Williamson, James Macon, David Smith (col), Ed Prichard (col), heirs of William Mitchell.

 West Range: 84 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 38 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1878 William B. Nash v. W. P. Ripley et al. Dyer Land, Sale of

Plaintiffs: Elias Parish. Defendants: M. E. Ripley

 West Range: 84 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 122 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1923 W. A. McNeil, et al. v. Maut Elam Dyer Land, Contract Dispute

Additional Complainant: W. L. Clemons

 West Range: 78 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1704 149 Order A Copy
View Entry 1882 William Conner v. Albert G. Ferguson et al Dyer Land and Title Dispute

Additional Defendants:; H. L. Fowlkes; William C. Fowlkes and wife, Sallie Fowlkes. Sallie Fowlkes only heir of Thomas J. Connell. Connell, a merchant & partner with A. G. Ferguson, died in Dyer Co. in 1857.

 West Range: 84 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 206 79 Order A Copy
View Entry 1903 W. H. Reed v. D. W. Shipley & Wife Dyer Land, Confirmation of Ownership West Range: 81 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 867 55 Order A Copy