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View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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View Entry | 1814 | Adam McKee, et al. v. Joseph Love | Knox | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Plaintiff is the acting sheriff of Know County. |
East | Range: 5 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 54 | 14 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1832 | Charles Bailey v. Eli Lockert et al. | Montgomery | Breach of Official Duty |
Defendant, a tax collector, used tax monies collected toward payment of his own debt. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 192 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1879 | Charles Keiker v. W. H. H. Truett | Davidson | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Additional parties: Henry Cox. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 46 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1900 | C. E. Adams et al. v. Miss Flora Fitzgerald et al | Gibson | Breach of Official Duty |
Additional Plaintiffs: J. W. Smith & J. W. Olive, Directors of new school district. Additional Defendant: W. F. McRee, Gibson Co. Trustee. Miss Fitzgerald County Supt. of Public Instruction of Gibson Co., TN. In July 1899 plaintiffs petitioned the Gibson Co. Court to create a new school district out of the 6th School District to serve children in the Eaton community. Court approved petition, but defendant refuses to recognize the court action although required by law to do so. |
West | Range: 81 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 795 | 97 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1880 | Evan N. Pillow v. James L. Gaines, Comptroller of Tennessee | Davidson | Failure to Perform Official Duties | Middle | Range: 20 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 56 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1828 | Elijah Embree v. Adam Lambe, sheriff of Bledsoe County. | Hawkins | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Plaintiff claimed defendant did not collect on a judgment he won against Lincoln Amis[?], James M. Reynolds, Amis Granthan. |
East | Range: 7 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 690 | 30 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1866 | Furman, Green & Company v. P. L. Nichol, Clerk of Davidson County | Davidson | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Furman and Green claimed that they offered to pay taxes due by their company in cash and to pay taxes due from Furman using bank notes issued by the Bank of Tennessee but the clerk refused to accept the payment and issue them a business license. |
Middle | Range: 34 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 609 | 44 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1876 | Fleming Campbell v. D. A. Neilson, et al. | Hamblen | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Case incomplete; brief only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 103 | 4 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1932 | Frank Montgomery, et al.v. J. B. King | Knox | Breach of Official Duty |
The defendant wrongfully retained money and property of his clients for an unreasonable time after demand had been made for the payment thereof. Exhibit: bank notes. 2 folders. |
East | Range: 10 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1441 | 210 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1914 | G. N. Albright v. Western Union Telegraph Company | Haywood | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Exhibit: night letter telegraph. Cause of action: failure of the Western Union Telegraph Company to transmit a telegram paid for by G. N. Albright. |
West | Range: 79 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1338 | 57 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1841 | Green Moore, Chairman of the County Court of Johnson County v. Reuben Miller, Sheriff & Collector,& his securities | Johnson | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Add'l Defs' (Miller's securities): Garland Wilson, Larkin L. Wilson, Andrew L. Wilson, John Grindstaff. Miller was charged with collecting county taxes. Moore filed this lawsuit alleging that Miller had failed to turn over the county taxes to the county trustee. (Matthias M. Wagner). |
East | Range: 9 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1144 | 34 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1894 | H. J. Cotham & Co. v. McGrew & Wallace | Giles | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
The plaintiff, H. J. Cotham & Co., sued McGrew & Wallace. This section of the case pursued judgement against the Sheriff of Giles County, J. P. English for failure to act as proper referee of Venditioni Exponas (requiring a sale) for $150 and costs owed to the plaintiff. |
Middle | Range: 36 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1067 | 30 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1853 | J. W. Alford v. H. C. Angel, et al.. | Lawrence | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Additional Defendants: J.S. Garther, J. A. Heagan, P. G. Austin, J.B. Kanire, D. Kerns, and B. H. Bond. Plaintiff is filing a suit against the Defendant, who is a county clerk, and his securities. Angel did not enroll 26 past cases and was found to be negligent of his duties. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 255 | 59 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1834 | Joel Coffer v. William Wray | Overton | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
William Wray, an official of Overton County, was instructed to collect and pay Joel Coffer $602.00 as this was the amount he was awarded in a previous case. He has failed to deliver the money. |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 376 | 58 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1889 | J. J. Alexander v. George W. Kinder et al. | Grainger | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
The plaintiff, trustee of Grainger County from 1878-1883, sued Kinder (a constable at the time) and W. C. Cochran over a bond worth $1400 for the collection of taxes. Kinder never collected the required county taxes or delivered them to the trustee as required by the bond/his office. |
East | Range: 19 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1838 | 118 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1846 | John Howard, sheriff v. Samuel W. Randles, deputy sheriff & his securities | Sevier | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Howard sued Def. Samuel W. Randles to obtain judgment against him & his securities for $205.70, the balance of the state & county revenue Randles, as deputy sheriff, was to have collected & paid over to Howard, as sheriff, but allegedly failed to do. Securities of Samuel W. Randles (also named as Defendants): William Randles, James Randles, James W. Ellis, Edmond Hodges. |
East | Range: 9 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1125 | 10 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1873 | John W. Ellis v. Cornelius Smith et al. | Greene | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Additional defendants: James Shanks, Isaac Crawford, John B. Hawkins, S.S. Hawkins, and Fethias Woolsey. Plaintiff is the elected County Revenue Collector and appointed Smith as a Deputy Revenue Collector. Plaintiff argues that Smith, in his official capacity failed to collect and pay taxes. The additional defendants are Smith's sureties. |
East | Range: 9 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1211 | 33 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1881 | J. T. Lowe v. Meredith Campbell | Hardeman | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Lowe was clerk of the Road Commissioners of Road District 1 in Hardeman County. |
West | Range: 84 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 177 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1814 | John McAlister v. Joseph Love | Knox | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Plaintiff is the acting sheriff of Know County. |
East | Range: 5 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 54 | 18 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1897 | J. H. Fiser et al v. S. P. Alsbrook | Robertson | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Alsbrook filed suit against Fiser, a constable, and his sureties for debt due by failure of Fiser to collect and return an execution in favor of Alsbrook for S. P. Alsbrook v. Foster Washington and Lawson Washington. |
Middle | Range: 36 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1094 | 97 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1844 | Joseph Winters v. George Harrison, et al. | Greene | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Add.. Defs: Henry Brook, Caleb Harrison, David Bird, Wylie Kelly, William W. Harrison, all securities of George Harrison, constable, who Winters sued for refusing to go & make search for property of John Kimry, whose property he had an execution against. Also sued for refusing to take delivery bond for a parcel of wheat & for selling a quantity of oats under their value. |
East | Range: 9 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1137 | 4 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1889 | J. J. Jeter v. John Truman | Wayne | Breach of Official Duty |
Jeter also spelled Jerter. Plaintiff is sued the defendant, a Register of Wayne County, for failure to note for registration a deed to a house and lot from G.W. Thompson to plaintiff. The house and lot were instead taken from the plaintiff to fulfill a prior judgment against G.W. Thompson. The house and lot rested in the town of Clifton, Tennessee. |
Middle | Range: 35 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 780 | 131 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1871 | Lewis Jacobs& John Apple v. A. B. Conner, et al. | Hamilton | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Other defendants: Samuel H. Conner; David N. McGill; Peter Mounger; Daniel C. Trewhitt; Archibald McCallie. Trewhitt possibly Daniel Coffee Trewhitt (1823-1891), Judge & in Radical Republican camp during Reconstruction. A. B. Conner was sheriff of Hamilton County & was being sued for "breach of covenant" in performing his duties as sheriff. Co-defendants were his securities on his bond. |
East | Range: 9 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1251 | 57 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1907 | McMinn County v. N. Q. Allen, et al. | McMinn | Breach of Official Duty |
Allen, D. M. Owens, & James Reagan were sued in their official capacities as election commissioners following an election effected by re-districting precincts according to Dortch Law and Census of 1900. |
East | Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 4 | 4 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1842 | M. M. Gaines v. Spencer Beavers, Sheriff | McMinn | Breach of Official Duty |
Sheriff Beavers ignored a court order to collect a debt settlement case owed to Gains involving Thomas Nixon Van Dyke and Augustus W Elder. Chattel property and land were both encumbered for the debt, but Beavers refused to collect. |
East | Range: 5 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 18 | 8 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1901 | Mayor & aldermen of the City of Jackson v. John T. Stark, et al. | Madison | Breach of Official Duty |
Suit against John T. Stark, Recorder for the City of Jackson, and his sureties. |
West | Range: 81 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 768 | 22 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1850 | State v. William Watterson, et al. | Coffee | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Additional Defendants: Thomas Bell and William Sharp and Elias Teal, Securities of John Bell, late Sheriff of Coffee County. Late Sheriff failed to follow orders handed down to him by the court. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 238 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | State v. Matthew Mathis | Jackson | Breach of Official Duty |
Defendant was overseer of public road that was in disrepair. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 239 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1852 | State v. Jonathan Craighead | Jackson | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Craighead overseer of roads left the road in his care in a state of disrepair. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 241 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1874 | State v. Mayor & Aldermen of Bellville | Crockett | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Mayor & council are charged with failure to keep a section of road in their district in good repair. Defendants: Zac Wainwright, Thomas Noel, R.N. McLemore, Oran Pittman, Robert Webb, James Williams. |
West | Range: 84 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 38 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1843 | State v. Huel Parish, admr. of Wyatt Parish | Dickson | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Defendant is accused of not properly filing his records with the County Clerk, as is his duty as the administrator of Wyatt Parish. |
Middle | Range: 21 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 176 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1860 | State v. George Smith | Fentress | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Defendants failed to put mail markers on the road to the danger of the citizenry at large. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 293 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1874 | State v. Robert Chadwell, Revenue Collector, et al. | Davidson | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Additional Defendants: John Taylor, Thomas Chadwell, and John M. Bass. Case involves the failure to appropriately collect tax revenue. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 346 | 62 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1872 | Samuel J. Kitrell v. Moses Watkins | Wilson | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Kitrell claimed that he paid for a receipt given to him by the constable defendant but the defendant failed to account for the money given him in execution. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 338 | 147 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1881 | State v. William R. Love | Lawrence | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
The State charged Love with "drunkenship in office." Love was elected Register of Lawrence County and while still an officer of the County supposedly became so intoxicated as to be unable to conduct his official duties. |
Middle | Range: 37 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1113 | 9 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1848 | State v. Martin Hancock, et al. | Coffee | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Additional defendants: R. L. Rayburn, Larkin Burman, Joseph Gentry, James A. Brantley, Secil Bobo. The defendants are all securities for John Bell, late sheriff of Coffee County. John Bell is accused of not rendering tax money he collected to the state. |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 382 | 7 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1889 | State v. J. B. Spencer et al. | Greene | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Defendants: J. B. Spencer, Mayor, James Armitage, recorder, John Brabson, Taylor Howard, S. G. Shield, and Charley Corman, aldermen. The State charged the defendants with allowing a public road in Greenville to remain out of repair and be a nuisance to the public. The circuit court convicted them of a misdemeanor. |
East | Range: 19 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1840 | 16 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | State v. S. H. Hairston | Breach of Official Duty |
Incomplete file; just brief. Hairston, a constable, was indicted for levying upon and selling property without notice. Brief argued proof did not correspond with indictment, which said underlying judgment was James R. Laferry v. Herron & White. But proof showed judgment was actually D. J. Carr v. Herron & White. |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1164 | 2 | Order A Copy | ||
View Entry | 1936 | State v. S. H. Roach | Knox | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
S. H. Roach is noted as being the Sheriff of Cocke County, TN. State charged Roach with failure to apprehend a fugitive named Clarence Bunch. |
East | Range: 8 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1018 | 25 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1858 | State v. James Carpenter | Claiborne | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Grand jury returned presentment against A. Burchett for tippling, against G.W. Rese for nuisance, & against Carpenter as road overseer for failing to keep a public road -- the Bean's Station Turnpike -- in good repair. After hearing evidence, the court quashed the presentment as to Carpenter, which action the attorney general appealed to the SC. |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1160 | 6 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1917 | State, for the use of Henry Cobb v. J. A. Reichmand & the Massachusetts Bonding& Insurance Company | Shelby | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Judgment and writ of Certiorari only. Judgment was against the defendants for $1,150 on the alleged ground that the defendant Reichmand as Sheriff of Shelby County had failed to return an execution in the case of Henry Cobb v. J. Lombardi, which was issued to him by the Clerk of the court in 1916. |
West | Range: 79 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1502 | 79 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1858 | State v. Isaac Russell | Sevier | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Russell charged with misdemeanor as overseer of public road, which ran from Knox County line to Paw Paw Hollow cross road in Sevier County. Road was out of repair, obstructed by trees, stumps, rocks, mud holes & ditches, ¬ properly bridged, measured or mile-marked, without mileposts of durable wood at each mile with number of miles to courthouse or other places. Jury found Russell to be between age 18 & 21 and, if law allowed person of that age to be overseer, he was guilty; court said no, so not guilty |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1183 | 10 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1879 | State v. John Jones | Campbell | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
The deft., the County Court Clerk of Campbell County, was charged with "willfully, knowingly, and unlawfully" failing to make his monthly revenue report to the Chairman of the County Court on the date required by law. |
East | Range: 19 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1692 | 25 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1875 | Sam Clem, et al. v. A. G. W. Puckett, et al. | Hamilton | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Other plaintiffs: Hamilton County. Other defendants: John H. Hardin; A. Selcer[?]; James Cummings; H. P. Green; O. Shipley; Ph. Mandra[?]; W. C. Laffery; A. Sevily; James Williamson; J. J. Bryan; D. N. Carver. Puckett was judge of Hamilton County Court. Case originally against Harding, clerk of County Court. Rest of defendants were his securities. For failing to pay over to County the revenues collected in 1874. |
East | Range: 20 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1623 | 42 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1929 | State v. W. W. Roberts | Roane | Breach of Official Duty |
Roberts, former sheriff of Roane County, was accused of imposing & collected fines for boarding prisoners which he pocketed. Testimony mentions drinking on the job as well as allowing his wife to let prisoners out in his absence. Exhibits show some prisoners were held in the workhouse for two to three times longer than they were sentenced. See add'l documentation in box ET 12. |
East | Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 4 | 546 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1857 | State v. James Cummings, et al. | Hamilton | Breach of Official Duty |
James Cummings was elected sheriff of Hamilton County, then apparently exhibited behaviors contrary to those required by law. This brief lists statues pertaining to proper duties of office, most of which have to do with housing prisoners. Incomplete case ; brief and earlier filing only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 5 | 4 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1880 | State v. T. D. Cassetty | Davidson | Failure to Perform Official Duties | Middle | Range: 20 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 70 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1876 | State v. Church Martin, alias Church Buntyn | Shelby | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Defendant, who had been appointed overseer of the Macon Road, was indicted for failure to keep road in repair. |
West | Range: 84 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 90 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1880 | State v. D.T. Porter, Recorder & the Taxing District of Shelby County | Shelby | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Actual charge is failure to collect and pay over revenues due to the state of Tennessee. The dispute concerns whether the county is obligated to pay state taxes on a particular type of fine it imposed on someone found guilty of assault & battery. |
West | Range: 84 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 151 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1880 | State v. J. N. Ford | Shelby | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Cause of Action: Failure to Settle as Administrator |
West | Range: 84 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 24 | 0 | Order A Copy |