Exhibits: copy of application for Bond, copy of check, original check, original application for Bond, affidavit, itemized statement. Origin of Debt: indemnity insurance.

Additional defendants: G. I. Frazier and J. B. Hunt.

Johnson sued George and Mary Jane Gray and John Gagley to have a receiver take repossession of land he claimed is his and remove the defendants from said property.

Additional Complainant: A. H. Gould. Additional Defendants: Paul S. Steward, Theodore King, Jr. This bill was filed to recover the sum of $1,000, being the balance upon a contract entered into between the parties for the transfer of a beer agency, Atlas Brewing Company.

Plaintiff was a confederate soldier in the Civil War, at which time he was ordered to get a horse from a certain home. After the war, plaintiff was charged with being a horse thief and required to submit a note for the repayment of the horse. Plaintiff later discovered defendant to be in possession of stolen horse and demanded that horse be returned to him, so that he could return it to the owner. Plaintiff also requested the note be deemed and void since he found the horse and planned to return it

Additional Defendants: Sparrel Hill, C. H. and A. B. Benedict, composing the firm of Benedict Bros., D. C. Scales, American Publishing Co., Nashville Savings Bank, Lucius Frierson, H. C. Rinaldi and D. B. Ramsey, North Western Mutual Life Insurance by A. S. Caldwell, Flavius Cooper, and M. D. Cooper. Plaintiffs requested that an accounting of the lands and properties of defendants and necessary foreclosures made to repay debt to plaintiffs from prior judgment in Maury County circuit court.

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.

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

Bank of Cooter: corporation from Pemiscot County, MO; J.M. Rowland authorized agent of defendant and could purchase corn and draw drafts for it; Bank looking to recover $281.90 for three car loads of corn

Plaintiff brought suit against James Harmon, and Joseph L. Harmon, Nancy J. Travis, and Benne D. Harmon to prove he was the rightful owner of certain tracts of land lying in the 2nd civil district. He claimed that the defendants entered his land and ejected him. He requested the court restore it to his possession and grant him damages. Exhibits include 2 oversze maps of the land in question. Located in M-17-21.

Additional Complainants: W. D. Blankenship, No. 3039; Roy Woodford, No. 3040; Charles Jenkins and Frank Wilburn, No. 304, causes consolidated. Complainants sought wages for their work on the Ft. Loudon Dam at Lenoir City which defendant company contracted with TVA to build. Complainants claimed they had not been paid according to the Walsh-Healey Act provisions.

Incomplete Case. Folder only contains petition for appeal & a Decree. Other plaintiffs, & cause of action not stated.

Slater, Emma C. Kidd, Melissa A. Kidd, and Lerretia J. Kidd by next friend Leroy A. Kidd petitioning to sell a tract of land.

church operating in Memphis, Tenn.; additional defendant: A. H. Kortrecht; deed of trust to Korterecht, trustee, conveying church property to secure an indebtness of $2500 evidenced by 50 $50 notes; Fraser acted as Church treasurer; Fraser claiming Church is indebted to him; congregation gave no authority for deed of trust; Exhibits: receipts and cost notes from church activities and bills

J. F. Biffle, Buchanon, and Edwards executed a note to the defendant bank in 1893. Biffle was the principal and the plaintiffs were the sureties. When Biffle defaulted on the note, a judgement was rendered for the bank and the plaintiff surities paid the note. However, the refused to pay the attorney fees of the bank, claiming they were unreasonable and that a judgment was reached quickly.

Plaintiff Bowman sued defendants James H. Harman and Nancy J. Travis to prove the plaintiff's ownership of a tract of land in the 2nd district of Claiborne County. Bowman claimed the defendents entered his land on January 10, 1888 and ejected him. He requested the court also restore his possession of said land. There are two large hand-drawn maps of the land in question (both are torn and fragile).

Additional Defendants: I.[?] H. Hill, individually and as trustee of Emily M. Record, John R. Hill, John T. Hill.

Daniel Bales sued Peter Harmon for allegedly unlawfully detained land from the Bales. Because of difficulties in the case proceedings, petitions for certiorari and supersedes were filed. Bales also issued an action of ejectment against Harmon.

Plaintiffs D. W. Hughes, J. T. Willingham, and W. J. Willingham, filed a writ of injunction to prevent the constable from executing judgements against the plaintiffs. Plaintiffs requested that the defendant bank be forced to first exhaust the property already levied against the plaintiffs for repayment of their debts to the defendant.

Case file is incomplete; opinion only.

Case is incomplete; opinion only.

Margaret Simmons died with no children and left her estate to her brother and other relatives. Her brother John Leonard, administrator, located allegedly forged information in the estate documents including the inventory in his favor. The other heirs were illiterate & contested the estate documents. Margaret left a 137 acre farm located in the 2nd Civil District of Marshall County. Add. documents located in MT 942, 943, and 1073. Box 1073 has combined case A. S. Robinett et al. v. Mrs. D. E. Leonard et al.