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View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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View Entry | 1986 | Adrian Terry, assignee v. H. Schubert | Knox | Debt on Account |
Plaintiff was the assignee of J. B. Davis and C. Baumgartner. Baumgartner & Davis were contractors and builders hired to build a hotel for the defendant at 85 & 87 Gay St. (west side) in Knoxville. Plaintiffs sued for $913.13 for unpaid work- labor and materials. |
East | Range: 19 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1876 | 130 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1939 | Arkansas Fuel Oil Co. v. Knox County | Knox | Debt on Account |
Exhibits only. Documents include invoices, delivery receipts, requisition orders, stock audit, franchise certificate, purchase orders, and statements. Others involved are Gates Rubber Co., Ideal Battery Co., Tenn. Dept. of Highways & Public Works, Knox Co. Highway Dept., Consumers Oil Co., Cities Service Petroleum Products, and Caswell Boyd Tire Co. See ET 557 for case file. |
East | Range: 8 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 808 | 577 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1888 | Armstrong Carter & Co. et al. v. S. G. Thauhouser | Knox | Debt on Account |
Additional Plaintiffs: Gusdorff Brothers and James A. Johnson Co. Additional Defendants: Charles A. Toby. Plaintiffs Armstrong Cater & Co. were in the wholesale millinary business in Baltimore, Maryland and the Gusdorff Bros. were wholesale merchants. They claimed the defendants were indebted to them for $619.13 on account for merchandise the plaintiffs sold and delivered to the defendants. |
East | Range: 19 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1870 | 105 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1947 | Amco Feed Stores Inc. v. Hazel Kreis Oliver et al | Knox | Debt on Account |
Exhibits include inventory list, cancelled checks, Add. Defendants: Charles L. Oliver. |
East | Range: 7 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 659 | 202 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | Abraham Starr v. John Epps& James Byerly | Knox | Debt on Account |
John Epps and James Byerly claim that Abraham Starr owes them a debt on an account that is under $200. |
East | Range: 9 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1199 | 20 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1890 | Buss Machine Works v. Shepard, Mann Johnson | Knox | Default on Promissory Note |
Buss Machine Works sued for payment of notes for woodworking machinery known as a "tenon" and sander. Exhibits include a promissory note to the plaintiff, bill of lading for the equipment, telegrams requesting delivery, and receipts of delivery. |
East | Range: 19 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1818 | 160 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | Baker, Wright & Company v. John Nicholas et al | Knox | Debt, Balance on |
Add. defendants: Samuel A. White, F.W. Vanuxern, Elizabeth Vanuxern, William Kennedy, James Kennedy, & William Swan. J. Nicholas is justly indebted to the plaintiffs in the sum of $543.33, which is evidenced by a note of hand. The sum is the purchase money for a tract of land after an initial $110 was paid by the defendant. Other defendants were employers or creditors for the purchase, and the bill includes an injunction to prevent W. Swan from taking possession of goods after paying the balance. |
East | Range: 9 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1213 | 46 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1876 | C. H. Flournoy v. J. F. J. Lewis | Knox | Debt on Account |
This case was a plea of debt on account. |
East | Range: 20 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1636 | 94 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1849 | Charles H. H. Brown v. George W. Churchwell | Knox | Debt on Account |
The parties dealt with goods and accounts together for several years. The defendant later refused to pay for certain goods and became indebted to the plaintiff. |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1168 | 28 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1932 | Columbus Paint & Varnish Company v. R. T. Clapp & Company | Knox | Debt on Account |
Defendants are indebted to the plaintiffs for $219.94 with interest from 1930 by an itemized statement of material. |
East | Range: 10 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1384 | 119 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1876 | C. H. Flournoy v. Hugh Dowling, admr. of James M. Calloway, dec. | Knox | Debt, Execution on |
Calloway was indebted to Flournoy for $25, but died before case could be heard. Suit amended to make Dowling, as administrator of Calloway's estate, the defendant in case. See also J. M. Calloway, et al. v. Hugh Dowling, admr. of James M. Calloway, dec., et al., also in ET 1656. |
East | Range: 20 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1656 | 34 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1890 | D. A. Carpenter, et al. v. Matt Franklin & Wife | Knox | Debt on Account |
Plaintiffs: G. M. Harrell, R. N. Hood. Dispute over unpaid notes to several banks in Knoxville related to the purchase of a lot in the city limits. |
East | Range: 19 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1828 | 71 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1931 | Decatur Cornice & Roofing Company v. W. C. Terry, et al. | Knox | Debt on Account |
Plaintiff: Decatur Cornice & Roofing Co., a corp. in AL. Defendants: W. C. Terry, W. C. Terry Realty & Trust Co.- a Knox Co. business; Commercial Casualty Ins. Co., a NJ corp. Debt on acct., $1773.10, order of steel fabricated stairs made in Jan. 1929 for renovation @ Terry Apts. (Knoxville?). |
East | Range: 10 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1369 | 106 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1867 | Emanuel Bamberger, Nathan Bloom & Levi Bamberger dba Bamberger, Bloom & Company v. John P. Barger, John W. Lee & Robert W. Lee dba Barger & Lee, & Lucinda Barger | Knox | Debt on Account |
Defs owed pla. firm per various notes, such debt incurred when pla. sold merchandise to Defs in Knoxville, which Defs shipped to Memphis. Fearing 1 or more Defs may abscond, pla. asked court for attachment of Defs' property (land, iron safe). Witnesses included Barger's wife Lucinda, who said husband John mysteriously left the country after suit filed & she has since filed a suit for divorce. Her home in East Knoxville was part of property pla. attached. |
East | Range: 9 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1219 | 57 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1946 | Edgar A. Levy Leasing Co., Inc. v. Lucy H. Henderson | Knox | Debt on Account | East | Range: 7 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 520 | 82 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1891 | East Tennessee, Virginia, & Georgia Railway Co., in error v. Trent Canning Co., in error | Knox | Debt on Account |
The defendant in error, Trent Canning Co., sued the plaintiff in error for debt due under $500. The plaintiff in error was ordered to pay $74. 55 to the Trent Canning Co. but appealed. |
East | Range: 19 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1781 | 52 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1858 | F. B. Armstrong v. Henry Castellaw, et al. | Knox | Debt, Execution on |
Other defendants: Wilson L. Trundle; William W. Lackey. For debt of $950 |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1177 | 15 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1857 | George W. Howard & Co. v. William G. Brownlow | Knox | Debt, Execution on |
May be the same William G. Brownlow that become governor during Reconstruction. Transcript only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 78 | 20 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1888 | George C. Jackson v. J. M. Meek | Knox | Debt on Account |
George C. Jackson sued J. M. Meek, a stockholder in Chronicle Company and the company Jackson worked for. Jackson claimed the company owned him money on several notes for wages and money loaned to the company. |
East | Range: 19 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1844 | 49 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1885 | George F. Hesselmeyer v. Moody, Mitchell, & Co. | Knox | Debt on Account |
Martin Moody, J.C. Mitchell, and M.T. Andrews were doing business under the name Moody, Mitchell & Co. and they claimed that Hesselmeyer owed them $300 on his account. |
East | Range: 19 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1906 | 30 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1871 | G. W. Mabry v. John Baxter | Knox | Debt, Balance on |
Baxter originally sued Mabry for $1000 due by note. Mabry denies owing the money. |
East | Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 4 | 10 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1888 | H. B. Claflin & Co & A. G. Woodruff Co. et al. v. Hall & Smith et al. | Knox | Debt on Account |
Plaintiffs H. B. Chaflin & Co. claimed that the defendants, J. B. Hall and B. M. Smith purchased $8650 of goods from them on account which was wholly unpaid. Plaintiffs A. G. Woodruff Co. claimed the defendants owed them $363 dollars. Majority of case (502 of 509 pages) is in ET 1788. |
East | Range: 8 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 787 | 509 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1908 | H. W. Brown v. Fidelity Trustee & Receivers Co. | Knox | Debt on Account |
Law Cause No. 9 Complaint of Fidelity Trustee and Receiver Co. for use of Winnebago National Bank in a plea of debt due by account and accepted bill and note under $500.00. Payee promised to sell and deliver to defendant 74 volumes of books. Defendant states he never received books. Appeal case included. |
Middle | Range: 34 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 715 | 62 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1859 | Henry Lones & John Lones v. Parminion Fatio & John Lowe | Knox | Debt on Account |
The defendants are indebted to the plaintiffs for $1,500 in goods, which they unjustly detained from them. The original sum was for $2,000 and the defendants paid off part of the sum, but never returned to pay the rest of the account balance. |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1176 | 46 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1865 | Horace Maynard v. John J. May et al | Knox | Debt on Account |
Add. defendants: Reuben E. Fox, administrator of the estate of Joseph W. Fox (dec.). The plaintiff is sued to recover a debt on account in a sum under $100. |
East | Range: 9 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1198 | 20 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1818 | John Witt, Sr. v. John Witt, Jr. | Knox | Debt, Execution on | East | Range: 5 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 61 | 6 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1814 | Joseph Love v. John McAllister | Knox | Debt, Execution on | East | Range: 5 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 53 | 16 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1835 | John Anderson for the use of Leonard Coker v. William Tipton | Knox | Debt on Account |
Debt under $20.00. |
East | Range: 7 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 696 | 10 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1937 | Joe Keeney, ex ux. v. John Richards, et al. | Knox | Debt on Account |
Additional Plaintiff: Sarah Keeney. Additional defendants: William S. Keeney. Debt was for a loan of cash and charged an excessive amount of interest. |
East | Range: 9 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1107 | 64 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1857 | James P. Ruggles v. Williams, Bronson & Co., et al | Knox | Debt, Execution on |
Williams, Bronson & Co. is firm comprised of Myphra W. Williams, Charles F. Neuffer, & Decatur L. Bronson. Add. Defs: James C. Moses, John Williams, John L. Moses, Joseph H. Walker, John King, Samuel N. Fain. Ruggles said he was creditor of Def. firm & that firm now dissolved but, when it was dissolved, it owned property near Knoxville comprising large steam flour mill & machinery, stable, 2-story brick building, though mill consumed by fire. Ruggles wants to satisfy debt out of said property. |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1156 | 34 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1867 | James D. Bennett v. Haywood G. Bennett, James H. Bennett, & Jeptha Browder | Knox | Debt, Balance on |
pla. & brother Def Haywood were in partnership to sell goods in Morgan County & as such, bought stock of goods from Samuel Martin, executing notes to pay for same. pla. pd part of debt, but Haywood didn't pay anything; debt outstanding when partnership dissolved. Haywood recently conveyed lg 600-acre tract on main road west of Knoxville to his son Def James H. (who has always lived w/his dad & who has since conveyed it to Def Browder) & did so to avoid debt. pla. asking land be attached to satisfy debt |
East | Range: 9 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1222 | 49 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1933 | Jerry M. Porter v. Hot Blast Coal Co. et al. | Knox | Debt on Account |
Hot Blast Coal Co. and Jesse A. Bland are indebted to the complainant in the sum of $700.08 due on account for work and labor. |
East | Range: 10 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1506 | 91 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1876 | J. F. Seiberling & Company v. McCorkle & Brown | Knox | Debt on Account |
Defendants: McCorkle & Brown, a firm composed of Calvin McCorkle of Nashville, George Brown of Knoxville. Plaintiff was a corporation located in Ohio, manufacturers and dealing in reaping & mowing machines, "and other implements of husbandry." Debt owed ($6,504.80?). See also ET 736. |
East | Range: 20 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1636 | 103 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1878 | John H. Carriger v. James S. Boyd, et al | Knox | Debt on Account |
Plaintiff kept a running account with the firm of defendants, J. M. Dailey & Co. Defendants were in the business of keeping and maintaining a livery stable. Plaintiff alleged that defendants intentionally placed erroneous charges on his account. Plaintiff also alleged that his mare was injured while being kept in the stable owned and operated by defendants. Additional Defendants: M. E. Thompson, J. M. Dailey |
East | Range: 20 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1631 | 20 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1871 | J. A. Mabry & G. W. Mabry v. C. A. Mabry | Knox | Debt, Balance on | East | Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 4 | 30 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1940 | J. F. Walker Furniture Co. v. Waldo Smith | Knox | Debt on Account |
Exhibits include sales contracts, fiscal inventories and ledger statements. |
East | Range: 7 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 675 | 43 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1859 | James W. Campbell v. John Miller McKee, et al. | Knox | Debt, Execution on |
Other defendants: William Campbell Humes; William G. Swann; John H. Crozier; William H. Sneed; Thomas W. Humes. Over debts arising from the purchase of the "Knoxville Register" newspaper in 1849. |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1177 | 38 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1858 | James Ruggles v. William Bronson, et al. & John S. Moffett v. James Ruggles, et al. | Knox | Debt on Account |
Case relative to a deed of conveyance made among parties in Aug., 1854, and June, 1855. Reference debt on mortgage left from transaction. Defendants: John S. Moffett, Charles Neuffer, D. L. Bronson, M. V. Williams, firm of Neuffer & Hendrix, Charleston, South Carolina. |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1183 | 100 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1873 | John H. Bryson, admr of R. B. McMullen, dec v. Knoxville & Charleston Rail Road Company et al | Knox | Debt, Execution on |
McMullen died intestate sometime before September 1865. Before he died, he recovered judgment against def. Rail Road Co. for track it laid across McMullen's land, which judgment has not yet been fully pd. Suit revived in admr's name, judgment rendered & execution issued on Rail Road property but returned unsatisfied. Bryson filed this action to satisfy judgment from Rail Road stockholders who have not yet paid for their subscription (therefore owe Rail Road money). Rail Road pd judgment so bill dismissed |
East | Range: 9 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1227 | 89 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1873 | John LaRue & wife Adelia [Adele] LaRue v. John W. Gaudin [Goudin] | Knox | Debt, Balance on |
Adele previously married to Gaudin, to whom she loaned $234.62 (from her dad L. Verry), to be repaid out of his property if he died or they separated. She says he then treated her cruelly, leading her to separate from him & then divorce. He paid part of amount due, but balance unpaid; hence, this suit. Gaudin says instead that Adele repeatedly committed adultery & Gaudin given custody of their 4 children (oldest to youngest): Fanny, William, Henry, Selina. |
East | Range: 9 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1233 | 29 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1876 | Julius Ochs & Co. v. W. G. Price et al. | Knox | Debt on Account |
Several cases were consolidated & reviewed by the court. Cases all centered around "the amount & value of the property attached in these causes & whether the same has been sold & if so what amount & in whose hands the funds arising from the sale now is" Other parties involved in consolidated cases include: V. Burger and son and F. Seibel. It appears that the property in question in the cases are goods and merchandise sold and the amount due on account is in question. |
East | Range: 20 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1626 | 38 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1937 | Knoxville Belting & Supply Co. v. Hugh Ammons | Knox | Debt on Account |
Debt amount was $71.15. Debt was for mechanical work on a vehicle owned by W. J. Wooton. Ammons initially sued Knoxville Belting & Supply Co. and won the case. This case is the appeal with Knoxville Belting claiming the work was on Wooton's personal vehicle, meaning that Knoxville Belting had no liability. |
East | Range: 9 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1071 | 149 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1867 | Kuhn, Netter & Co. v. J. H. Fressendu & Co. | Knox | Debt on Account |
Debt of $890.12 for goods, wares & merchandise sold. |
East | Range: 9 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1222 | 58 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1940 | Morris Drilling Co. v. Farragut Operating Co. | Knox | Debt, Balance on |
J. E. Morris and J. E. Morris, Jr. sought to recover a balance on a contract between complainants and defendants for the digging of a well. |
East | Range: 7 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 596 | 369 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1890 | M. W. Barkhouse and the Ahrenns & Ott Mfg. Co. of Louisville v. Charles Kurth, et al. | Knox | Debt on Account |
Additional defendants: Gus Engers, S. H. Johnston, D. M. Taylor and William Sellars of the National Tube Works; $3000 had been levied in the previous months upon the stock and goods of Kurth in his store at No. 158 Gay St, but only $400 has been paid Ex A: list of other cases involving Charles Kurth. |
East | Range: 19 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1780 | 69 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1939 | Monarch Brass Works v. Knoxville Iron Company | Knox | Debt on Account |
This was a suit upon an itemized sworn statement of account of $297.00 for merchandise sold and delivered, coming from and duly proven in the state of Kentucky. |
East | Range: 7 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 628 | 121 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | Miners & Manufacturers Bank v. Samuel Ferguson | Knox | Debt on Account |
Debt due on account under $500. |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1180 | 8 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1873 | Martin E. Woody v. B. F. Badgett & Charles M. McGhee | Knox | Debt on Account |
Defendants are indebted to the plaintiff for brick furnished and labor done during the building of a certain house by contract between the parties. The plaintiff is sued for the sum of $336.23. |
East | Range: 9 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1234 | 66 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1932 | Model Garage Company v. Dewey A. Sanders | Knox | Debt, Balance on |
Plea of debt due by promissory note dated Jan. 21, 1931 for $125.00. The note provides for 6% interest amounting to $2.78 and 10% attorney fees amounting to $12.50, making a total of $140.56. The note had a credit of $46.22, leaving a balance of $94.34. |
East | Range: 10 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1380 | 44 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1878 | N. E. Scales v. Patrick Kelley | Knox | Debt on Account |
This case was filed as an appeal from a previous case where plaintiff in error had a judgment rendered against him in favor of the defendant. Defendant was awarded a judgment of $363.00 for a debt on an account. |
East | Range: 20 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1631 | 66 | Order A Copy |