Also see ET 341. Plaintiff seeks deed from defendant to property purchased from defendant; also, seeks possession of bank note in defendant's possession that is allegedly paid off to free their property of the lien associated with said bank note. Judgment 2/3 in favor of Defendant, 1/3 in favor of Plaintiffs. Reversed in part and affirmed in part on appeal. Additional Plaintiffs: G. W Myers, W. C Myers. Large binder bound using bolts onto which nuts have fused; left bound as is. Includes receipts.

Wife: Susannah J. Baxley. Other defendants: Peter Wolfenbarger; Sarah Wolfenbarger (wife of Peter). Susannah and Sarah were sisters & the daughters of A. G. Helton, dec. Decedent had willed each of them interest in a tract of land. Susannah sold her interest in the land to William Wolfenbarger based, she claimed, on fraudulent claims made by him.

In 1878 the pltfs. sold a 160 acre tract of land called the "mineral springs property" to dfnts. for $4000. The large case is a lengthy dispute over this property. W. J. Heacker immigrated from Germany and served as a Confed. surgeon in the Civil War. He sought to open a sanitarium on the property.

Other plaintiffs: Eva Taylor. Other defendants: Mae Mullins; Flora Murray; Cora McNally; Dora Hood; Maud Murray; Sophia Smith. Case in 2 folders.

Additional defendants: Emily, David, and Elizabeth Bull, John and Catherine Evans, and Mary Leger, all heirs of Claiborne Bull dec. Harvey purchased the various interests in a tract of land from several of the defendants and then sold the entirety of the land to the plaintiff. Before conveyance was made, a fire destroyed the title bonds to said land. Plaintiff prays that the title and interest in the land be divested from the heirs and placed with him.

Additional Complainants: E. E. McBee, Don Buckner, Clyde Buckner, Lynn Buckner, Frank Buckner. Additional Defendants: John Buckner, Scott Dyer, Omar Dyer.

Add. Pla.: Miranna as guardian of minor dau Cynthia Elizabeth; dau Mary Elvira (m. Robert P. Moore); son Lemuel I.; dau S. C. (m. J. W. Parrott); Thomas Lathem as guardian of John J. Moore, son of deceased dau Sophronia Moore; dau Sallie (m. Thomas Lathem); son Lafayette; dau Margaret Emily (m. John W. Kincaid); Martha Harriet (m. Charles H. Davis); James T. Shields, admr of John's estate. 1500 acres on Clinch River: home tract, McGinnis tract, Augustus Jennings tract, Parrott tract.

In 1865, Capt Harrington's company of US soldiers sent to Rutledge, TN as "sort of guard" at term of Circuit Court. Soldiers arrested pla. (rebel) & prevailed on him to confess judgment to 5 judgments in favor of Easley & Co & related parties (led by Warham Easley Jr). Judgments satisfied by selling pla.'s land (incl Chandler tract); Def Bryant purchased land & Def. Haynes & Nance (other jdgmt creditors of pla.) "redeemed" it. Witnesses incl pla.'s daughter Mrs. Martha Nash. Suit to reclaim land.

Notice of Court sale of land only. Court of Origin: Unknown.

File incomplete. Detalis of case unclear. The Chancery Court of Grainger Co. agrees that the land claimed by the plaintiff Smith is the same property that once belonged to Alfred Livingston who died in 1863 during the War, leaving a widow, Jane, and 2 minor children, Edward & Mary E. Livingston. Mary E. Livingston married a King. Edward Livingston, now an adult, conveyed his interest in the land to Smith. Title to the land was vested in Livingston's heirs by 1878 Supreme Court Case Livingston v. Noe.

Christian petitioned the court to eject the defendant claiming rights to the land in question.

Add. defendants: Thomas Jamagin & Spencer Jamagin. The parties were married. The plaintiff's father, William Rucker (dec.), left her several tracts of land, a portion of which she deeded over to William Malicout. A deed was made out to the defendant by Malicout, cutting the plaintiff out of her share of the land. The making of said deed without the plaintiff's knowledge was a fraudulent move and she alone held rights to the land and her husband's debt to Jamagin led to the trespass.

Additional Defendants: Samuel T. West[?], J. E. West[?], C. C. Smith, C. H. Coffin, R. J. Wilson, J. H. Coffin, William Kinder, T. J. Bowell. Cause of Action: Complainant filed to vacate a sale of land.

Additional material located in ET 1235. Add. defendant: Wilson Manly. In 1860, W. Manly conveyed to the plaintiff a tract of land by conveyance, stating the land was to go to a certain "Calhoun's line" as a marker for the edge of the property. The true conveyance was to read that it went past the line and J. Brooks is refusing to let his boundary go past a certain oak tree on that line because of the mistake in the deed.

Trespass on the case. Gray owned land on north side of Holston River, on both sides of Stiffey's Creek. Gray claimed Tate damaged his use of that land by building a mill dam across the creek, thereby causing creek to overflow & damage Gray's land. Includes appeal by Tate stating that the parties could not have a fair trial in Grainger county.