Tennessee Supreme Court Cases

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View Entry 1905 Asa Holder et al. by next friend, J. W. Thompson v. Josephine Lawson Hamilton Land and Title Dispute

Additional plaintiffs: Ziegler Holder, and Ireka Holder. Defendants: Josephine Lawson. Writ states that deed dated 19 Dec 1901 is fraudulent. Orders land previously thought to belong to Lawson should be turned over to the Holders.

 East Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1a 2 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 Asa Holder, et al. by next friend v. Josephine Lawson Hamilton Land and Title Dispute

Additional plaintiffs: Ziegler Holder, Ireka Holder, and J. W. Thompson. See also Box 1a.

 East Range: 5 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 30 93 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 Annie Evans v. Robert Macklin Shelby Land and Title Dispute West Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 702 76 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 B. F. Yates, et al. v. William White Henderson Land and Title Dispute

Additional plaintiffs: J. H. Yates, Elizabeth Yates, Vallie Yates, L. T. Yates, Mark Hance, Mirtie Hance, Jessie Hance, and Rebecca Yates by T. A. Lancaster. John W. Yates, deceased. Two folders.

 West Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 706 405 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 C. H. Crisman v. H. P. Crowley Shelby Land, Contract Dispute West Range: 80 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1003 97 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 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 1905 F. G. Proutt v. George H. Glascock, et al. Shelby Land, Partition of

Additional Defendants: Bowden G. Tate, Lucy A. Balton, and H.A. Balton (husband of Lucy). See WT Box 1112 for other parts of this case.

 West Range: 81 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 898 165 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 G. W. Dillahunty v. John Connor Jr., et al. Lauderdale Land and Title Dispute

Other defendants: William Moore; Jacob S. McFerren; C. H. Moore.

 West Range: 80 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1003 372 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 H. J. Kinzel v. George McIntyre & H. J. Kinzel v. A. N. Strong Knox Land and Title Dispute

Court ruled in favor of Strong and McIntyre, because Kinzel based his land sale details on an 1871 deed. His deed did not mention land that had been parceled off and sold separately. Since Kinzel had not paid taxes on the land for 26 years, it was encumbered with debt to the county.

 East Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1 2 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 H. W. Stockley v. W. A. Cissna et al. Tipton Recovery of Land/Property

Additional Defendants: R. Gibson (of Arkansas) and Muncie Pulp Company (of Indiana). Case involves two tracts of land in Tipton County owned by the plaintiff.

 West Range: 81 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 934 282 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 Harris L. Browne v. Ford N. Taylor Shelby Land and Title Dispute

The case contains an oversize plat map.

 West Range: 80 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1110 42 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 James W. Post & H. E. Beecher v. Daniel B. Lawson, et al.& J. W. Fisher v. Post & Beecher Knox Land and Title Dispute

An erroneous survey led to disputed land claims. Mentioned in document: Martha L. Lequire, Catherine Lawson, Leona Lawson, D.J. Lawson, W.G. Lequire, Rhoda E. Abbott, John Abbott & A.C. Cawhorn. Others named included Thomas M. Brown and C.T. Cates. Incomplete case file: petition for errors only.

 East Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 8 4 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 Joseph Acker v. Knoxville, LaFollette, & Jellico Railroad Co. Knox Land and Title Dispute

Case incomplete; brief only.

 East Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 103 22 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 J. E. Powers et al.v. J. H. & W. T. Nunn Crockett Recovery of Land/Property

Additional defendants: L. H. Gibbons and wife Ida Gibbons, D. A. Harwell and wife Z. J. Harwell, J. T. Heath and wife H. W. Heath and Sallie Powers and infant who sues by her next friend , J. E. Powers, J. H. Kirby and wife Callie Kirby and Mrs. L. P. Galeher.

 West Range: 81 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 938 200 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 L. H. Ingraham, et al. v. C. A. Scott, et al. Monroe Land, Confirmation of Ownership

Partial case. B. F. Payne allowed Roy Taylor to reside on land belonging to "hold" for Miller, Payne's son in law. Taylor lived on land for two years. Other pages in case do not mention this scenario. Details difficult to parse. Incomplete case.

 East Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1a 4 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 M. A. Stephenson v. Joe Matheny et al. Weakley Land and Title Dispute

This case involves a portion of a larger plot of land owned by M.A. Stephenson in Weakley County. He claims that defendants erected a fence upon a portion of his land and are using it as a public burial ground and that they have no right to this land.

 West Range: 80 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1023 203 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 M. A. Gobelet v. Elias Dodson Perry Land and Title Dispute

Properties in Sixth Civil Dist., on Buffalo River in Perry Co., TN; timber rights, endangering land, destroying usefulness as a farm. Defendant threatening to further trespass on land, claiming to have title.

 West Range: 80 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 997 137 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 Mary J. Ricardi, et al. v. Charles A. Gaboury, et al. Knox Sale of Land/Property

Ricardi owned property on Gay street in downtown Knoxville in common with other owners, and it was for lease. Incomplete case.

 East Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 2a 1 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 Martha W. Bacon et al. v. R. J. Rawlilngs et al. Shelby Land, Confirmation of Ownership

Case concerns land in a Memphis subdivision that M. L. Bacon left in his will to his wife (defendant), daughter Lizzie B. Turner, and son-in-law Cooper Turner. Co-defendants: R. M. Buck; Maggie L. Winkler; J. W. Winkler; S. J. Shepherd, Trustee; George C. Bowen, Trustee; and Thomas H. Elliot.

 West Range: 82 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 688 184 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 Newt Clowers v. John Hughett et al. Scott Land and Title Dispute

Final Decree only. Additional Plaintiffs: Jasper Hughett, M. J. Robbins, J. L. Robbins, W. H. Potter, R. B. Sexton.

 East Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 87 4 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 Payne v. Satterfield Land, Fraud

Opinion only. Plaintiff in error sued the defendant in error to recover damages for the deceit alleged to have been practiced by the latter upon the former in the purchase of certain real estate.

 Middle Range: 35 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 827 6 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 R. M. Parmentier et al. v. Benton Land & Iron, Co. & F. M. Willingham et al. v. Benton Land & Iron Co., et al. Polk Land, Confirmation of Ownership

A consolidated case by writ. Property of Crapie Mioland as part of Mioland Farm, to be transferred from Plaintiffs to Defendants: F. M. Willingham & Lydia T. Davis. Mineral and lumber rights transfer as well. Incomplete case. Judgment only.

 East Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1 2 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 Rudolph C. Ehrlich v. Emma Weber, admr. Shelby Confirmation of Land Ownership

Emma Weber is the sister and administratrix of the estate of Adolph Weber, deceased. Ehrlich is her half-brother, son of their mother's first husband. He claims that Emma sold property which was rightfully his, having been inherited by Adolph Weber from his first wife, complainant's mother. He says he is rightfully entitled to share in any rents and profits from that property.

 West Range: 81 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 740 181 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 Rebecca E. Martin et al.v. Peter Tillman Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Additional Plaintiffs: Rebecca E. Martin and Lillian M. Martin, minors, sue by their mother and next friend Mary E. Martin

 West Range: 80 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1004 46 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 Southwestern Presbyterian University, et al. v. Presbyterian Synod of Tennessee, et al. Montgomery Land and Title Dispute Middle Range: 21 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 144 0 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 S.T. Porter, admr. et al. v. W. W. Sawyer, petitioner v. Ida Zoe Yearwood et al. McMinn Land, Confirmation of Ownership

Ida Zoe Yearwood, Mack Yearwood, Mrs. E.E. Yearwood, James Harry Yearwood, Hugh Yearwood, Hortrense Yearwood, Burr & Knapp, W.W. Sawyer, N. Q. Allen were all ordered to turn their interest in real estate over to D.B. Yearwood as inheritance.

 East Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1a 3 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 Theodore Read v. S. T. Armour et al Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Originally an ejectment suit against defendant to recover fifty acres of land in Shelby Co. Land conveyed by moses Isaacs to Johanna & Solomon Isaacs on 15 May 1871; gave deed of trust on tract to secure an indebtedness of about $3000 to Charles Obermeier & others. Land sold to plaintiff in fee simple 24 Dec. 1888. Also mentioned: Mark, Sam & Jennie Isaacs, children of Solomon & Johanna Isaacs.

 West Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 702 19 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 Union Railway Co. v. Mrs. E. M. Hunton et al Shelby Sale of Land/Property

Brief only. Case concerns the fair value of property purchased by the railroad.

 West Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 702 20 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 Union Railway Company v. Gilbert D. Raine Shelby Land

Docket Number illegible

 West Range: 80 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1023 92 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 W. W. Holt v. T. R. Holt, et al. Hamblen Land and Title Dispute

J.H Long and Mary Long occupied land belonging to Thomas R. Holt unlawfully. Court orders Holt to recover the land from them. No mention of W.W.'s role in this case. Incomplete case.

 East Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1a 2 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 Willis Person et al. v. Sam Turner et al Madison Land and Title Dispute

Additional Plaintiffs: Emma Person, Louis Parker, Ella Parker and Allie Turner. Additional defendant: James M. Tayol African American plaintiffs and defendants " complainants … show to your Honor that they and defendants are all persons of color "

 West Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 700 118 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 W. F. Goessling v. Eaton & Smith Shelby Land and Title Dispute

Appeal on invalidation of land title by firm of Eaton & Smith. Decision states that the tax title deed of Goessling was void because the delinquent list was not certified by the trustee until long after it was filed in the circuit court of Shelby. Includes brief and argument on behalf of plaintiff-in-error.

 West Range: 81 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 911 55 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 W. F. Harris v. W. B. Jones, et al. Henry Land

This case centers around a trust deed and promissory notes for a tract of land in Henry County. Trust deed included.

 West Range: 80 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1008 175 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 W. F. Goessling v. G. A. Clark Shelby Land, Sale of

Includes a tax dispute. Claims land was sold for unpaid taxes incorrectly.

 West Range: 80 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1017 87 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 William B. Fisher et al. v. Coal Creek Mining & Manufacturing Company Morgan Land and Title Dispute

Case concerns land that was part of the estate of William Fisher, dec. The brothers and sisters of William Fisher and their descendants complainants. Reply brief only. See additional documents in box ET 11.

 East Range: 8 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 788 48 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 W. C. Thompson v. J. C. Blanks et al. Cannon Land and Title Dispute

Opinion only. Court of origin unclear (equity docket suggests Chancery, but opinion mentions Circuit). Case involves land owned by plaintiff, purchased from his brothers J. H. & H. L. Thompson. Judgment levied against pla.'s brother's interest in land. Case revolves around proper construction of Act of 1899 to regulate lien of Justice's execution levied on land. Add. defendants: probably plaintiff's brothers but this is unclear.

 Middle Range: 35 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 824 6 Order A Copy
View Entry 1905 Zachary S. Oliver v. Charles Wendt Shelby Land and Title Dispute West Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 704 43 Order A Copy