The plaintiff sued the defendant for damages for falsely charging him with larceny and breach of trust.

Crawford was married with children and a well-respected citizen of Tunnel Hill, Ga. when the newspaper published a defamatory article about him. It identified Crawford as the man arrested for drunkenness, disorderly conduct, and attempting to break into the homes of Will Calhoun,Essie Long & Addie Stephenson, in Tunnel Hill. He suffered humiliation & embarrassment and believed that he was forever labelled "a sneak and criminal." Major Calhoun, Joe Jeff Moore, W. W. Calloway & Arthur Montgomery testified.

Other defendants: H. C. Irby, T. J. Dupree, T. M. Gates, G. C. Savage, J. L. Vass, E. B. McNeal, W. D. Dupree, Findly Snider, C. H. Brown, R. B. Williams, A. C. White, L. B. Shelton, J. B. Withers, U. R. Heavener, B. O. Snider, J. G. Cisco, J. R. Graves, Jas. Mahaffy, and Baptist Publishing Co. Sued for $50,000 damages for article that appeared in the newspaper, "Baptist Reflector."

Resulting from a defamatory newspaper article. Additional Defendant: Connie McConnell.

Additional plaintiffs - Mrs. A. J. Sutton & minor children. Additional defendants: Maury National Bank, W. D. Bryant and J. G. Bryant multiple folders

Plaintiff, J. P. Fry, sued the defendant, Baugh & Lane for $5000 in damages for libel for letters and publications produced by the Merchants Retail Commercial Agency of Chicago, Illinois and Atlanta, Georgia. The plaintiff claimed these publications were a scheme to coerce the payment of insolvent claims through threats for the benefit of the defendant Baugh & Lane who claimed the plaintiff owed them $90.20.

Plaintiff, John Sylvis, sued E. E. Miller for $5000 in damages for libel after Miller wrote a letter and put it in the Dickson post office that accused the plaintiff of taking the defendant's money in exchange for wood that was not delivered in full.

Add. defs: Samuel Parks, Jabal F. Parks, Harrison Secrest. Sloan was a postmaster & claims his standing in the community was damaged after defs. committed libel against him by accusing him of dishonesty in his capacity as postmaster.

Lea sued the Knoxville News Sentinel for libel to his damage $100,000. Lea was a publisher for the Nashville Tennessean and President of Southern Publishers Inc. Lea sued the newspaper for accusing him of robbing the public by using his influence as a corrupt political boss to control acts of public officials for his own financial gain. Lea sued for libel against a different company in the same year. See Luke Lea v. Times Printing Company et al. in ET 1344.

Additional defendants: R. C. Brown, Isaac Danson Sr., W. H. Campbell, James A. Danson, J. J. Hudson, J. H. Clark, Francis Ruse, Isaac Danson Jr., Elisha Natt, Alfred Danson, C. M. Hudson, D. L. Yarborough, John Bilele [?], and John Kelly. Plaintiff was suing for damages related to the publication of a letter in the Greenville Intelligencer newspaper in which the defendants claim that he was of corrupt principle and was a pest to the community. Also, Cocke County case.

Defendants: James Sloan. Additional parties: John Davis, Abraham Wheeler. Cause of Action Unknown. The first 4 pages of this case are missing. Felix Sloan was under 21 yrs of age and Parks had been talking badly about Sloan to his neighbors. Sloan finally retaliated in a law suit. The suit was appealed because Parks did not agree with the taxes due on the case.

Additional Defendants: A. S. Sandis, Jr., G. H. Baskette. "The Nashville Banner" published that the State prison's dead were inhumanely bartered to medical colleges instead of properly buried. The alleged libelous statements concerned the conduct of James E. Carter, Superintendent of the Penitentiary of the State, F. S. Harris, Warden, Deering J. Roberts, Physician of Penitentiary.

Charge of libel against W. A. Brown, 25 March 1883.

Plaintiff, S. T. Angus, filed a suit for libel founded on a series of letters and publications from the Merchants Retail Commercial Agency of Atlanta, Georgia that were sent to Angus from on behalf of the defendant, Nelson Martin & Co. Angus claimed it was a "coercing scheme" to force payment of insolvent claims.

Defendant indicted for writing and publishing a defamatory letter against Mary Phillips on 22 July 1879. Among the accusations is a charge of "unbecoming conduct" with a Tommie Lisles.

The State charged the defendant with libel for posting/publishing a defaming notice about Miss Dustie Pemberton. Additional case materials located in ET 1829 (Range 19, Section D, Shelf 4).

The defendant maliciously and unlawfully composed and published falsities to vilify a Martin S. Patterson and to bring a public scandal against him.

In his deposition, W. T. Mullen points out that his surname is often confused for Mullens, Mullins, or Mullin.

Case concerns L. B. Cate, whose tombstone read "was shot and killed by Bill Penick December 11, 1896, caused by Penick swearing a lie Cate's wife."

Klotz sued the defendant for $50,000 damages. Defendant was a German corporation operating out of Elizabethton who manufactured rayon. Klotz was employed as an engineer to supervise the installation of machinery and improve manufacture of product. Pla. Was falsely accused by def. of being a commercial spy, stealing and selling valuable manufacturing secrets. Pla. Suing def. for damage to his home, his good name, and his reputation and for libel-making him unable to find employment. 2 folders.