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View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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View Entry | 1920 | A. J. Scott v. Nashville Bridge Company | Davidson | Personal Injuries | Middle | Range: 21 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 142 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1912 | American Lumber Company v. Clarence J. McDonald | Shelby | Personal Injuries | West | Range: 80 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1088 | 164 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1918 | Annie Corbin v. J. H. Pope& James Pope | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Annie Corbin is sued for $2000.00. Plaintiff was in the process of boarding a street car when she was struck by an automobile being driven by James Pope. She claims that not only was Pope speeding but he was trying to pass a stopped street car. The vehicle hit her hip and ran over her foot crushing and mangling it. She was confined to bed and in great physical pain. |
West | Range: 79 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1601 | 118 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1920 | Albert Lewis v. E. E. Nesbitt | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
The plaintiff is sued the defendant for $500 for personal injuries sustained as the result of a car accident. |
West | Range: 79 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1603 | 199 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1931 | Annie Church by next friend T. J. Church v. E.C. Offinger et al. | Carter | Personal Injuries |
Additional defendants: Mrs. E.C. Offinger and East TN Limestone Quarries. Plaintiffs sued for $5000 damages for personal injuries. Annie Church worked for the Bemberg Plant and was being carried in passenger car when a large truck belonging to the defendant ran a red light and hit the car, inflicting her with permanent injuries to her head, face, and body. |
East | Range: 9 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1291 | 89 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1907 | Alex Anderson v. Virgil Hunt | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Hunt, a minor, sued Anderson after the latter's wagon accidentally dropped some large slabs of stone on the street which later resulted in injuries. |
West | Range: 80 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1052 | 115 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1913 | Allen Wright v. Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Rail Road Company et al | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Damages for personal injuries and property damage in a train/wagon collision. An attorney addresses Mr. Wright as "Uncle Allen." Oversize photograph of train crossing located in WT Oversize Box 2. |
West | Range: 80 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1125 | 58 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1937 | A. R. Gillespie& Victor P. Gaughey v. John G. Martin, et al.. | Hamilton | Personal Injuries |
Additional Defendants: Mary Lou Martin Kirkland, Rose Martin Ochs, Katherine M. Dart, and Florence M. Hamrick. The plaintiffs sustained damages from a fire in a hotel owned by the defendants in Chattanooga. The file is contained in two folders. Blueprint and photographs of Central Hotel. |
East | Range: 8 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1007 | 359 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1931 | Armour Slover v. Henry Nohsey and Hugh Schwab | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Slover was hit by a truck, owned by Nohsey and Schwab, while crossing Union Street in Memphis on March 8, 1929. |
West | Range: 77 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 2060 | 273 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1916 | Annie Cline & husband J. Cline v. J. A. Loudon | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Annie Cline and her husband are sued J. A. Loudon for $5000.00. Annie Cline and her husband resided at 1970 Delmar St, in Memphis, a property belonging to J. A. Loudon, In Dec. 1915 and again in February, 1916 they notified Loudon that the back steps to the house were old and rotten. Loudon failed to repair steps. Annie Cline fell through the second step on 3-28-16, breaking her left arm, dislocating her wrist and fragmenting the bones in her hand, leaving her disabled. |
West | Range: 79 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1521 | 136 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1919 | B. A. Williams v. B. H. Welch, et al. | Gibson | Personal Injuries |
B.A. Williams is sued Welch and the Chero Cola Bottling Company for $1500.00 damages for injuries he suffered when Welch, driving a motor car for the Chero Cola Company, recklessly and negligently drove the car with great force against and upon the plaintiff and the horse he was riding. The impact of the collision hurled the plaintiff over a fence and prostrate, to the ground- rendering him unconscious until the next day. |
West | Range: 78 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1640 | 211 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1940 | Bertha O. Alexander v. Hamilton National Bank of Chattanooga | Hamilton | Personal Injuries |
Exhibition Materials: one hand-drawn diagram, four photos of marble stairwell. |
East | Range: 6 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 340 | 211 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1895 | C. T. Wyatt v. Illinois Central Railroad Company | Madison | Personal Injuries | West | Range: 82 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 634 | 102 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1908 | C. G. Oglesby v. Illinois Central Railroad Company et al | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Additional defendant: Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company. Cause of action: damages for personal injury. |
West | Range: 81 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 973 | 127 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1906 | Carey Wallace v. Jake C. Benson | Henderson | Personal Injuries |
Benson owned a saw mill where employee Wallace was hurt while operating the equipment. |
West | Range: 80 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1038 | 31 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | Carrie Evans v. Memphis Street Railway Co. | Shelby | Personal Injuries | West | Range: 80 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1098 | 132 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1935 | Cecil Ballard, by next friend v. J. H. Hutchinson | Marion | Personal Injuries |
The plaintiff, a minor, was in an accident involving the defendant's truck. |
East | Range: 8 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 948 | 26 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1916 | C. S. Ginn v. D. W. Bishop | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
The defendant sued for damages after an automobile accident with the plaintiff. |
West | Range: 79 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1464 | 74 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1916 | Crescent Cotton Oil Company v. Will Newby | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Will Newby was employed by the Crescent Cotton Oil Company. While operating a "molding machine which was designed for the purpose of pressing the cotton seed meal into molds for the presser," his left hand was caught in the molding machine and was "permanently injured." |
West | Range: 79 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1476 | 119 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1917 | Crescent Cotton Oil Co. v. Soloman Shaw | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Shaw worked for Crescent Cotton Oil Co. and was involved in an incident in which he lost his hand and a portion of his arm when he got them caught in some machinery. |
West | Range: 79 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1517 | 194 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1893 | Chattanooga Electric St. Ry. Co. v. Z. T. Austin | Hamilton | Personal Injuries |
The plaintiff was driving his wagon with a team of mules on the track of the Street Railway Co. The wagon was loaded with machinery and some of the machinery was projecting out of the back of the wagon. A street car drove up and was following the wagon. As the wagon turned of the machinery went through the street car glass. The mules were frightened and took off. The plaintiff was hurt and was suing for personal injuries |
East | Range: 19 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1712 | 181 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1931 | Cora Westfield v. Tennessee Electric Power Co. | Hamilton | Personal Injuries |
Westfield sued for $5000 damages for personal injuries. Plaintiff was getting off of the defendant's buses when the bus rolled forward and the plaintiff was knocked against the side of the bus, injuring her hip and wrenching her back. |
East | Range: 10 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1300 | 88 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1921 | C. E. Williams & wife v. Edgar Newsum Black, by next friend F. N. Black | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
3 folders. Edgar Newsum Black is the minor son of F. N. Black. Edgar "sustained very sevre and permanent injuries as a result of a collision between his motorcycle, upon which he was riding, and the defendant's automobile being driven at the time of the casualty by Mrs. C. E. Williams." "The accident occurred at the intersection of Union avenue and Claybrook street, in the City of Memphis, on August 16, 1920." |
West | Range: 78 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1702 | 594 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1933 | Chattanooga Baseball Company v. Wallace C. Bathman | Hamilton | Personal Injuries |
Bathman sued the Chattanooga Baseball Co. for $3,000 in personal damages sustained when he was hit in the ankle by baseball. Despite securing grand stand seats, plaintiff was forced to sit in temporary seating around the outfield. Housed in 2 folders. |
East | Range: 10 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1491 | 146 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1943 | Carmon K. Crawley v. Crane Enamelware Company | Hamilton | Personal Injuries |
Cause of Action: under Workmen's Compensation Act. |
East | Range: 6 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 360 | 110 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1936 | City of Knoxville v. Claude A.& Lizzie Hood | Knox | Personal Injuries |
The Hoods originally sued the city for injuries sustained by Lizzie Hood from a fall caused by a faulty sidewalk. |
East | Range: 8 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 949 | 48 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1916 | City of Memphis, Thomas R. Boyle,& Mrs. Virginia F. Boyle v. Rosa Badanis& Ben Badanis | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Rosa Badanis sued the plainitffs for damages resulting from a fall in a basement owned by Mrs. Boyle. |
West | Range: 79 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1464 | 135 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1918 | City of Memphis v. Ada May Bobbitt, by next friend T. J. Bobbitt& T. J. Bobbitt | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Ada May Bobbitt is the daughter of T. J. Bobbitt. She was six years old when she was walking over a bridge, maintained by the City of Memphis, and a banister fell off and knocked her on the head. After the accident, her eyes were crossed and she suffered from hearing loss. |
West | Range: 79 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1517 | 317 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1893 | Chattanooga Eletric St. Ry. Co. v. Rosa Lee Walden | Hamilton | Personal Injuries |
The plaintiff was a passenger on one of the street cars. Plaintiff stated there was a collision between two cars one of which she was on. She stated that she was severely injured and would no longer be able to support herself. She was seeking money from the railway company. |
East | Range: 19 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1712 | 90 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1932 | City of Chattanooga v. Mabel Evatt, et al. | Hamilton | Personal Injuries |
Mabel Evatt by next friend C. M. Evatt. Add Def: C. M. Evatt. Two cases tried as one. Mabel Evatt is sued the City of Chattanooga for personal injuries stemming from a car accident where East 10th Street terminates at the right-of-way of the C. N. O. & T. P. Railway. The car went over an embankment and into the railroad yard. C. M. Evatt, the father of Mabel, sued for the loss of service of his daughter and expenses incurred. The car was driven by Paul Weathers who may have been drinking. |
East | Range: 10 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1360 | 74 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1935 | City of Chattanooga, Tennessee v. A. M. Lokey | Hamilton | Personal Injuries |
Defendant in error brought suit to recover damages related to a fall. Defendant claims he was attempting to cross the street at the northwest corner of Willow and 16th Street when he stepped into a depression in the road nearly 18 inches deep. Defendant further claims he suffered numerous injuries including lacerations and sprains. Defendant believes the Plaintiff in error was negligent in its duty to maintain said roadway. Exhibit material includes two photographs of the depression. |
East | Range: 20 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1583 | 122 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1941 | Dilla Frank & J. H. Frank v. Chattanooga Gas Company | Hamilton | Personal Injuries | East | Range: 7 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 614 | 193 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1937 | Daniels Motor Company, et al.v. R. A. Smith | Hamilton | Personal Injuries |
Smith was employed by Daniels Motor. Smith was informed by his foreman to go to Newton Chevrolet to obtain a color card. He was directed to the paint room. Upon entering the room he became violently ill from inhaling fumes. Additional plaintiff: Maryland Casualty Company |
East | Range: 8 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1030 | 111 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1920 | Dorothy Doyle, by her next friend Thomas Doyle v. Gulf Refining Company of Louisiana | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Dorothy Doyle is a minor and Thomas Doyle is her father. Dorothy was crossing the street when "Gulf Refining Company's truck, operated and driven by the agent and employee of said defendant company, was negligently, carelessly and recklessly run into and against plaintiff, whereby she was seriously, painfully and permanently injured." |
West | Range: 78 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1644 | 162 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1875 | David Nowlin v. Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad | Bedford | Personal Injuries |
Witnesses included John Schrimshire, Rebecca A. Schrimshire, W.R. Barkley, J. E. Pearson, S. K. Fariss, Dr. Nowlin, Dr. Duke, G. Maupin, William Williams, T.H. Thompson, H. N. Davis, W. G. Kelly, Dr. Lipscomb, Dr. Moody, and W. F. Wadkins. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 34 | 106 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | D. A. King v. Illinois Central Railway Company | Madison | Personal Injuries |
Sued for $475. Plaintiff claimed he was run over by a train while on the tracks 1 mile outside of Jackson, TN. Plaintiff claimed the train did not sound a whistle or ring a bell as a warning it was approaching. |
West | Range: 80 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1255 | 169 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | Dry Block Mercantile Company v. Miss Edith Hodges | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
3 folders. Miss Hodges is sued for $30,000 damages for personal injuries caused to her when a truck operated by an employee of Dry Block Mercantile drove up on the sidewalk and hit her. |
West | Range: 78 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1743 | 624 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1884 | East Tennessee, Virginia, & Georgia Railway Company v. Mary J. Mathis | Monroe | Personal Injuries |
Plaintiffs are appealing the charge that they caused the Defendant personal damage. |
East | Range: 5 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 27 | 55 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1899 | Emma Thane v. R. S. Douglass | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Lawsuit was for damages due to personal injury less than $500.00. |
West | Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 724 | 35 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1911 | E. H.& Harry Walsh v. James Franklin | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Asking for $5000 damages. |
West | Range: 80 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1084 | 272 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1935 | E. C. Ashley v. Hobart M. Sharp | Sullivan | Personal Injuries |
Sharp received injuries while driving a delivery truck for E.C. Ashley, a wholesale beer and gasoline distributor. |
East | Range: 8 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 830 | 118 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1935 | Edith O. Harrison v. Artistic Beauty Shoppe | Hamilton | Personal Injuries |
Edith O. Harrison is sued the Artistic Beauty Shoppe for $1,000.00 in damages for personal injuries she received while she was receiving a permanent wave. She states that the operator's negligence caused her to burn the plaintiff on the right side of her head behind her ear. The burn blistered, became infected, and swelled. The plaintiff claims she was painfully sick and sore for a long time. |
East | Range: 8 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 910 | 57 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1931 | Evelyn Liggins v. Ike Padawer | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Liggins sued Padawer for personal injuries sustained on January 10, 1929, "while she was a tenant occupying real estate consisting of a house and lot of the defendant on Queen Street, in Memphis." One of the floor boards on the house porch broke when Liggins was walking on it. She fell through the hole, "seriously and permanently spraining her ankle and knee and seriously damaging her leg." |
West | Range: 77 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 2059 | 61 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1896 | East Tennessee, Virgina and Georgia Railway Co. v. Tobe Wright | Cocke | Personal Injuries |
The plaintiff was seeking damages from the railway in the sum of ten thousand dollars. The plaintiff worked for the railway when he was injured. His right arm was crushed between two cars. 2 folders. |
East | Range: 19 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1730 | 220 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1928 | E. J. Kennedy v. Union Charcoal & Chemical Company | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Plaintiff sued for $15000 for personal injuries sustained when his motorcycle was struck by an automobile driven by an employee of defendant. 2 folders |
West | Range: 77 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1897 | 343 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1930 | Emma Jane Combs v. City of Elizabethton | Carter | Personal Injuries | East | Range: 7 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 636 | 34 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1935 | E. G. Moore v. Miss Eula Shadwick& E. G. Moore v. Miss Goldie Knox | Marion | Personal Injuries | East | Range: 8 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 895 | 387 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1935 | E. G. Maxwell et al.v. John Beck | Hamilton | Personal Injuries |
additional defendants: Maxwell Contracting Company, Louis Vetter |
East | Range: 8 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 902 | 57 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1928 | E. L. White Sr. v. E. R. White | Madison | Personal Injuries |
3 folders. E. L. White Sr. died, as a result of his injuries, before the case went to trial and his widow, Mrs. Pattie White, continued the suit "for her benefit and for the benefit of the children." Personal injuries were the result of a car accident that happened on October 19, 1926, "about seven or eight miles west of Savannah, Tenn." Ernest R. White's wife, Mrs. Ruby White, was said to be driving the car when the accident occurred. |
West | Range: 77 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1978 | 562 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1921 | Eustace McMackins, by his father& next friend H. E. McMackins, v. C. M. Watson, et al. | Carroll | Personal Injuries |
2 folders. Additional defendant: Central Oil Mills (a corporation with its main office in Jackson, Tennessee). Eustace McMackins is listed as "a minor about eleven years of age." Central Oil Mills had a cotton gin in Vale (Carroll County) that was operated by C. M. Watson. Eustace was helping his father unload cotton at the gin when he was struck, repeatedly by a line shaft. His right arm and leg were both broken. He spent many months in the hospital in Nashville and had several operations. |
West | Range: 78 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1697 | 415 | Order A Copy |