Request for appeal; request for writ of Supersedeas; challenge to previous judgment rendered when plaintiff was ill and absent as approved by the Justice of the Peace; writ of scire facias not exercised against co-defendants

Defendant won judgment against Henry S. Abrahams & Hannah S. Abrahams for debt of $327.11. Plaintiff was listed as surety for Abrahams, so Meyer sought to collect judgment from him. Plaintiff claimed to have been listed as surety without his knowledge or consent.

Case concerns a wage dispute.

Stating the defendant had a duty to audit all claims against the county of Hamilton and was the only person warranted to issue claims on a state level. Cover for "A. G. W. Puckett in error, v. A. A. Hyde," added 4/28/15

Rouse also spelled Rous. Defendant in error received a judgment in a previous case which plaintiff in error claims was unjust. Plaintiff complains that he had no day in court, and did not know of the existence of the judgment until an officer came with execution. It appears that Lewis's wife Jennie Lewis is also a plaintiff but her name does not appear in the case style.

Additional Defendants: Alice and Augenie Baird, Sarah White, Mary A. Stout, James and Elen Davis, G. W. Wilson, Jack C. Wilson and wife Elen Wilson, and William A. Lipford admr., of Andrew Wilson, dec. The plaintiff sued the defendants for a $3,000 payment from the estate of Andrew Wilson for the years of care that the plaintiff and heir provided for his parents Andrew and Elizabeth who both lived with him and he cared for prior to their deaths.

Andrew Haney, colored, asked for damages for personal injuries by the illegal acts of the packet company agent. Haney, a roustabout on the steamer "Lucille Noland," was accused by company of getting into an altercation with the boat's Second Mate. Company claimed the Mate acted on his own & was not authorized to have such personal encounters.

Plaintiff, Annie Mathews, sued for divorce from the defendant, John Mathews, charging him with "ill treatment, adultery with one Lizzie Hatcher, col.," and frequent accusations against her of infidelity. The case discusses the character and occupation of Lizzie Hatcher as a prostitute and the nature of the defendant's relationship with her.

Folder only contains petition for writ of certiorari. Original case was over fire insurance policy claim.

Original suit was trespass for an alleged injury to land. A judgment was rendered against the orator for five dollars. He claims that the judgment was made late in day and he was not informed in time for an appeal.

Statute of limitations reached.

Suit brought by Arther J. Owens and brothers, against their sister Nena Owens Parker. Parker and her husband are accused of fraudulently obtaining a deed to land owned by the Owens' mother, Mrs. Annie Owens, then attempting to sell two tracts of the land. Annie Owens did not own the property free and clear, and was in debt to the Holston Union National Bank. According to Owens' solicitor, multiple errors were made in the filing of the dispute.

Polk Co. & R. E. McClary successfully challenged the constitutionality of the state's new abolition of the poll tax. In 1943, the General Assembly passed a bill outlawing the poll tax. For years, the tax had been a way of legally suppressing voting privileges of poor whites and African Americans. Under the constitutional provision for a poll tax, counties required proof that male citizens had paid the tax. (The name Biggs is not obvious in the brief & argument.)

Other plaintiffs: Robert Burk (also spelled Burke). Defendant won judgment against plaintiff for $1800 using fraudulent notes. Plaintiff brought case to chancery court to obtain injunction on judgment.

Simpson maintains that case arises from his refusal to pay for a horse that he had purchased in good faith from Hamblett, but which proved dangerously unsound.

In 1875, Craig recovered an judgment against Parks for $269. This case concerns a dispute over whether or not this judgment was ever paid.

Case file is incomplete; opinion only.

This suit was instituted to collect compensation for selling a boundary of real estate under a written contract between complainant and defendant.

Additional Defendant: Maude McMahan.

debt of $311.38 and cost of suit

Plaintiff filed for a divorce after more than two years of desertion and non-support by the defendant. Also motioned to maintain full custody of their two children.

This is a petition for Mandamus. A writ from a superior court to an inferior court, commanding that a specified thing be done, which is return of debts to the alternative Writ of Mandamus here. State of Tennessee upon relation of P. C. Bethel v. John Lougue, the Mayor of Memphis, a Municipal Corporation created by the Legislature of the State of TN, James A. Newsom, Comptroller and Martin Kelly, Treasurer of said City of Memphis.