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View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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View Entry | 1883 | Alfred Sharp, et al. v. Oswald Sharp Heirs | Knox | Recovery of Land/Property |
Additional plaintiffs: Riley Ramsey, David De Armond. Property lines in dispute from an early land grant. See related ejectment case, Oswald Sharp Heirs v Riley Ramsey in ET 1960. |
East | Range: 9 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1049 | 287 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1878 | A. C. Lee et al. v. Rufus W. Allen | Jackson | Recovery of Land/Property |
Plaintiffs seeks to recover land that was purchased by Defendant using confederate money, but whose value was not set until after said currency ceased to be of any value. Deceased: John Lee. Add. Plaintiffs: Adaline Lee Curry, Lee M. Allen, David Allen, Polly Allen, Columbus Allen, John W. Lee, Hessie Lee, W. R. Lee, Asa T. Lee. |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 512 | 215 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1945 | Brown Crinkley v. George W. Adkisson | Roane | Recovery of Land/Property | East | Range: 7 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 518 | 115 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1904 | Berta M. Garrett v. A. S. Teater & M. J. Futhey | Tipton | Recovery of Land/Property |
Case incomplete. Only an Opinion present. |
West | Range: 81 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 891 | 5 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1895 | Cole Manufacturing Co. v. W. A. Collier, et al. | Shelby | Recovery of Land/Property |
Additional defendant: Alice T. Collier, his wife. |
West | Range: 82 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 630 | 647 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1940 | Clara Neidhardt Williamson v. Hamilton National Bank of Chattanooga, et al. | Hamilton | Recovery of Land/Property |
Additional Defendants: Emelie N. Crabtree, Charlotte C. Reynolds, Dorothy Crabtree, Carl R. Neidhardt, Barbara Neidhardt. Exhibits: trust agreement, letters, memorandum of agreement, correspondence, trust agreement, copy of divorce bill. Cause of Action: Complainant filed bill to declare void and set aside a Trust agreement executed by her and to recover all of the property set out therein, on the ground of undue influence and fraud. |
East | Range: 7 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 612 | 523 | 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 | 1946 | Doyle Gibson et al. v. Murphy Schular | Sevier | Recovery of Land/Property |
Plaintiffs seek to recover logs removed from their property by Defendant. Add. Plaintiff: Ruby Gibson. |
East | Range: 7 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 545 | 287 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1933 | David B. Harris, trustee, et al. v. H. M. Wade Manufacturing Company, et al | Sullivan | Recovery of Land/Property |
Plaintiff sold a property in trust, building that occupied property was used in a banking business to Union Securities Corporation. This case is regarding the ownership of banking fixtures that were in the property and sold by the plaintiff. Additional Plaintiffs: Tristram T. Hyde, Jr, State-Planters Bank and Trust Co. Additional Defendants: E. Thomas Sproles, Jr., H.C. Masengill, E. Hill Smith. Exhibits: Photographs of bank fixtures, trust deed, oversized map of bank. Map in ET Oversize 21. |
East | Range: 10 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1548 | 258 | 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 | 1906 | E. P. Hays & wife, D. C. Hayes v. H. B. Stubblefield, et al. | Perry | Recovery of Land/Property |
Additional defendants are not named in these documents. |
West | Range: 81 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 987 | 14 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1896 | First National Bank of Chattanooga v. Chattanooga Woodsplit Pulley Company | Hamilton | Recovery of Land/Property |
Case of misunderstanding the nature of collateral given. Mr. W.A. Willingham accepted a promissory note he thought was secured by machinery. Machinery was repossessed & possibly damaged, & resold. Case seeks to recover the machinery, & settle ownership. The third parties said they owned the machinery outright and were not part of any settlement or equity disputes. Additional brief in ET Box 1067. |
East | Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 6a | 6 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1892 | Flora Caruthers v. G. H. Denison & wife | Shelby | Recovery of Land/Property | West | Range: 83 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 351 | 110 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1910 | Fred DeJan v. Robert E. Wood | Shelby | Recovery of Land/Property |
The defendant was step-son to the plaintiff, who inherited property from his mother, Elizabeth Wood. |
West | Range: 80 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1201 | 245 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1882 | George Wooldridge et al.v. A. M. Boyd | Obion | Recovery of Land/Property |
Additional Plaintiffs: W. H., Joseph, Nannie R (or K), Sallie L. Woolbridge; Lou A. (Wooldridge) Reeds, wife E. C. Reeds; Bettie M. (Wooldridge) Thomas, wife G. W. Thomas; S. R. (Wooldridge) Burkliff, wife R. W. Burkliff. All plaintiffs children of W. F. Wooldridge, who died intestate In Fulton Co., KY in 1880. Plaintiffs residents of KY. |
West | Range: 83 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 190 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1937 | Henry Fetzer, et al. v. Nashville Tie Company | Morgan | Recovery of Land/Property |
Action brought by Fetzer, Harold V. Joannes, John A. Jones, and S. H. Jones, to recover land and amount due for cut timber. Ex. A is hand-drawn map showing Canter land tracts, Sims tract, D. L. Cooper land, and timber cut line. Noted are Land Entries 1962, 1201, 2453, 2841, and 1933. Ex. B, Land Entry 1962/Grant 21881, highlights Mitchell Joannes & Fetzer tract. Oversize ET 16 |
East | Range: 9 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1114 | 170 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1895 | Henry Shepard& wife Susan Shepard v. James Carlin, et al. | Shelby | Recovery of Land/Property |
Additional defendants: Jonas Cole, Samuel Harvey, Rosa Lee, Wesley Green and wife Harriet Green. Recovery of costs also. |
West | Range: 82 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 460 | 106 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | Henry M. Turnage v. Thomas R. Kinton & N. B. McCormick | Tipton | Recovery of Land/Property |
Plaintiff Turnage clamed that the defendants had a tract of land surveyed and entered a deed in the Tipton County court house that was actually part of an 1873 acre tract already owned by the Plaintiff. Land was in the 5th Civil District. Housed in 2 folders. Condition of materials is very poor. Handle with extreme caution. Extensive water damage to pages. |
West | Range: 82 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 652 | 500 | 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 | 1915 | Ike Danheiser v. Germania Savings Bank& Trust Co. | Shelby | Recovery of Land/Property |
Ike Danheiser is attempting to recover money and property that was left to him in a will by his wife, Lena Danheiser. |
West | Range: 79 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1459 | 88 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1883 | Jane Doss by next friend v. W. L. Doss and John Swaffer | McMinn | Recovery of Land/Property |
W. L. Doss owned a tract of land and conveyed land to Swaffer. Jane, Doss’s wife, would not sign the contract and it was never registered in the Register’s office. Doss moved the family to a poorer farm against Jane's wishes and she later filed suit to recover the land from Swaffer. Next friend Thomas L. Dixon. 90 pages in ET1940 |
East | Range: 19 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1891 | 119 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1947 | Joseph Weaver v. Trula Stiner et al | Knox | Recovery of Land/Property |
Additional Defendants: [?] Stiner, Herbert Barker and wife, Nell Barker. Exhibits include: Deed of Conveyance "J. H. Mynatt to B. Demarcus, J. Baley and Dr. W. Rogers," bills of conveyance, warranty deeds, plat maps. |
East | Range: 6 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 464 | 169 | 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 | 1894 | J. G. M. Ramsey v. Thomas C. Brabson | Knox | Recovery of Land/Property |
[J. G. M. Ramsey] Regards recovery of a walnut tree and adjacent land used to operate a ferry across the Tennessee River. Margaret C. Brabson named as administratrix. See (79) additional pages in ET 1985. |
East | Range: 5 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 74 | 84 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1892 | John P. Fuller, et al. v. Hamilton County | Hamilton | Recovery of Land/Property |
Defendants: John P. Fuller of Birmingham, Ala.; James H. Fuller, Simeon Fuller- both of Putnam Co., Georgia. All heirs of Simeon Fuller, Jr., decd. 1846, who partnered with Moses Presley in an earlier land deal with county. Seeking recovery of ½ interest of lots 42 & 44 on Walnut St., Chattanooga. Conveyance on properties made in 1839 by commissioners of Chattanooga for consideration of $1,170, by warranty deed, to Simeon Fuller, Jr. & Moses Presley jointly. |
East | Range: 19 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1725 | 132 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1869 | John D. James, et al. v. The Ocoee Bank, et al. | Davidson | Recovery of Land/Property |
Additional plaintiff: R. A. Barnes, G. W. Hitchings. Additional defendants: William P. Crippen C. M. Donaldson. Crippen originally recovered a judgment from plaintiffs for $5080 concerning 250 acres of land in said county. Also mentions James' enslaved people. See also Ocoee Bank v. John D. James, Knox Co., 1861 (box ET 1193). |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 17a | 60 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1880 | J. B. Thomas et al. v. N. N. Northcrop et al. | Gibson | Recovery of Land/Property |
Other plaintiff: James S. F. Thomas. The Thomas's are brothers who were willed some land and later sold it to Northcrop, who subdivided it and sold it to a number of buyers (the other defendants). However, Northcrop was not able to pay the Thomas's because the people he sold the property to did not pay him. The brothers are seeking to have the land returned to them in lieu of some subsequent payment. |
West | Range: 84 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 157 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1916 | J. R. Newbern et al.v. W. B. Booker et al | Haywood | Recovery of Land/Property |
tract of 219 acres belonging to Annie H. Newbern and establishing a boundary line; bill dismissed then appealed; additional defendants: J. W. Moses and wife, R. A. Kirby, Jim Kirby, W. B. Booker and wife |
West | Range: 79 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1504 | 1278 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1915 | Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company v. McKay & Morgan | Davidson | Recovery of Land/Property | Middle | Range: 21 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 124 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1892 | Lee Cason et al. v. I. W. Perkins et al. | Chester | Recovery of Land/Property |
Additional Plaintiffs: F. Morris Cason, Joe Johnson, Emma Johnson, Current Cason, Joe Cason, Marcus Cason, Jim Sutton, and Laura Sutton. Additional Defendants: Willie Cason and Lee Cason. |
West | Range: 83 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 368 | 111 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1886 | Lewis Mason & Wife et al. v. Lewis M. Jarvis et al. | Hancock | Recovery of Land/Property |
Additional Plaintiffs: Lavina Mason, Isaac and Mary Parkey, and Wilson M. and Mary Couch. Suit concerns the ownership of a tract of land in Claiborne County owned by Josiah Ramsey, dec. The plaintiffs claimed that the defendants had taken illegal possession of the land under a fraudulent tax sale/title. See majority of materials (109 of 133 pages) in box ET 1886. See related case files in box ET 71, 73, and 1695. |
East | Range: 7 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 751 | 133 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1940 | Lucy Jones v. T. H. Van Dyke, et al. | Jefferson | Recovery of Land/Property |
Origin of recovery: breach of contract. Add. Defendant: Ethel Van Dyke. |
East | Range: 7 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 509 | 70 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1941 | Lila Whedbee& Roland Whedbee v. C. J. Murray | Campbell | Recovery of Land/Property | East | Range: 7 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 540 | 163 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1903 | Leonora W. Shelley et al. v. Mrs. Florence Ruth Williamson et al | Shelby | Recovery of Land/Property |
Additional plaintiffs: Wm. Francis Shelley, Wm. Williamson Shelley, Irene Francis Shelley, Dolly Shelley who brings suit by Wm. Francis Shelley as next friend. Additional defendants: James Monroe Williamson, Florence Ruth Williamson. |
West | Range: 81 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 876 | 55 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1868 | Mary L. Vanderville, admr. of J. T. Persons, dec. v. Francis M. Cash, admr. of J. L. Bolton, dec. | Shelby | Recovery of Land/Property | West | Range: 84 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 4 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1945 | Mrs. T. S. Fuson v. M. W. Whitaker[?], admr. of Cornie Whitaker[?], dec., et al. | Claiborne | Recovery of Land/Property |
Additional Defendants: Dora Sturges, Mary Duckworth. This case involves the ownership of certain wall/display cases in a building owned by Dr. T. S. Fuson, dec., in his lifetime. Whitaker[?] is also spelled Whiteaker in some instances. Exhibits: depositions, bill of sale, note sued on, mortgage securing debt, plea in abatement, decree for sale, decree confirming sale, original bill in another proceeding. |
East | Range: 6 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 370 | 131 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1903 | Milburn Wagon Company v. Woods-Chickasaw Manufacturing Company, et al. | Shelby | Recovery of Land/Property |
Other defendants: T. B. Caldwell. |
West | Range: 81 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 885 | 132 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1892 | Newton T. Clinton, et al v. Joseph C. Bookman, et al | Putnam | Recovery of Land/Property |
Plaintiffs seized and possessed a large amount of real estate following the death of their father. Their father died before their grandfather, John C. Clinton's, dec. estate descended to them. Defendants began cutting timber on land. Plaintiffs filed this bill to recover value of all timber already cut and prevent defendants from cutting more timber. Additional Plaintiffs: Earley B. Clinton, Jesse K. Clinton, by next friend Sarah Clinton. Additional Defendant: John Algiers |
Middle | Range: 35 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 913 | 71 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1881 | P. M. Derryberry v. A. C. Nelms | McNairy | Recovery of Land/Property |
Plaintiff maintains land unlawfully seized and purchased by Nelms. Derryberry resident of Alcorn Co., MS. Nelms resident of Hardeman Co., TN. |
West | Range: 84 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 181 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1901 | P. M. Winters, et al. v. Mary J. Hainer, et al. | Shelby | Recovery of Land/Property |
Additional plaintiffs: minor children of P. M. Winters. |
West | Range: 81 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 768 | 25 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1896 | Robert I. Sigler, et al. v. James Smith | Tipton | Recovery of Land/Property |
Plaintiffs sued over cutting of timer by defendant from what they claimed was their land, being 150 acres noted as Land Grant 16992 issued originally to W. A. Sigler, though defendant Smith claimed it was his land by virtue of Land Grant 17025. Additional plaintiffs listed as M. E. Scott and husband Samuel Scott, A. G. Brown and W. A. Sigler, a minor. |
West | Range: 82 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 474 | 123 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1875 | Samuel S. Williamson v. Joseph C. Anthony | Giles | Recovery of Land/Property |
Plaintiff sued defendant for recovery of a tract of land situated in Giles County. Williamson claimed that Anthony had removed the fences on the land and is unjustly using the land. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 25 | 46 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1906 | Seba Morris v. E. S. Hurst, et al. | Chester | Recovery of Land/Property |
Other defendants: Smith Grantham & S. H. Moore. Complainant's father David Hurst owned 75 acres of land & willed it to Seba. Deed was destroyed in courthouse fire. Defendants have been cutting "valuable timbers" from the land, and Mrs. Morris wants to recover the $75 profit Hurst made. |
West | Range: 81 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 910 | 18 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1879 | Susannah Livingston v. D. C. Carmichael, admr. of Jesse Livingston, dec. | Grainger | Recovery of Land/Property |
Incomplete file. |
East | Range: 7 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 742 | 8 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | Samuel R. Shelton, admr. Of R. W. Shelton's estate v. W. G. Harding | Recovery of Land/Property | West | Range: 83 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 397 | 71 | Order A Copy | |||
View Entry | 1883 | State National Bank of Memphis v. Henry L. Douglass et al | Shelby | Recovery of Land/Property |
Additional defendants: B. B. Barnes, W. J. Chase, B. F. Haskins, Mrs. Lucy A. Douglass, John E. Douglass, J. D. Robinson, James H. Malone, Jake Butler, [blank] Henderson, and Mrs. Carrie Little. Complainant sues to recover property including a steam engine and boiler, a grist mill, a gin stand, and two mules. Briefs housed in separate folder from case file. |
West | Range: 83 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 214 | 409 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1884 | Sylvia D'Arusmant v. L. B. Coghill | Shelby | Recovery of Land/Property | West | Range: 83 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 253 | 61 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1884 | Thomas Powell, et al. v. Samuel F. Patterson | Smith | Recovery of Land/Property |
Additional Complainants: Minerva Powell, J. H. Wright, William Dowell, Catherine Dowell, William Agee, Wilson Wright, Green Wright, Julia Wright, S. H. Wright, John F. Deadman, William Deadman, Jane Powell, John Powell, Martha Agee, Joel Agee, W. D. Powell, Dora Powell, Josiah Powell, P. M. Lancaster. The heirs of William Waters, dec., sought to have a sale of land ified. |
Middle | Range: 34 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 600 | 444 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1883 | W. A. Wheatley v. The Taxing District of Shelby County | Shelby | Recovery of Land/Property | West | Range: 83 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 231 | 79 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1890 | Worth Hardin& wife v. A. K. Dickey et al. | Hardin | Recovery of Land/Property |
Additional Defendants: Frank Hilton, Ona Hilton, and Bettie Hilton. |
West | Range: 82 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 554 | 185 | Order A Copy |