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The files located in the Tennessee Supreme Court Cases represent an especially valuable resource for historical and genealogical research at the Tennessee State Library and Archives [TSLA].
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View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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View Entry | 1850 | Anthony Dibrell v. L. W. Tussell | Davidson | Failure to Return Execution | Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 239 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1884 | Adams, Throne & Co. v. W. M. Kirk, Sheriff | Dickson | Failure to Return Execution | Middle | Range: 34 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 571 | 34 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1872 | Andrew Knott, et al. v. William B. Carter, exe. Of A.M. Carter, dec. | Knox | Failure to Return Execution |
Opinion only. Carter moved for and obtained a judgment against J.P. Lush, a constable of Knox county, and his securities for failing to return an execution issued and delivered to him. |
East | Range: 9 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1210 | 4 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1827 | Arthur Jones v. Nathaniel Hunt | Franklin | Failure to Return Execution |
Hunt is Franklin County sheriff and is accused of failing to return an execution which was issued upon the dissolution of an injunction to a judgment of the Circuit Court for $147. |
Middle | Range: 21 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 184 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1846 | Allen Carter et al. v. William Samuel Boughter | Montgomery | Failure to Return Execution |
Additional Plaintiffs: Allen Carter and wife, Carlotte, Samuel Lockhart and wife, Nancy, D.D. Murphy and wife, Sarah, Joseph Lockhart and wife, Polly, John Smith, James Smith, George Smith, Thomas Smith, William Smith, J. Hornberger, and others. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 222 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1879 | A. N. Akin, clerk v. Thomas J. Crosby, et al. | Maury | Failure to Return Execution |
A. N. Akin, special commissioner in place of J. B. Padgett, dec. v. Thomas J. Crosby as Sheriff of Maury County, Tennessee, Ed Williams, John B. Hamilton. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 55 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | Bank of Tennessee v. Francis M. Boyd, & his securities | Coffee | Failure to Return Execution | Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 258 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1855 | Bank of Tennessee v. E. B. Bigley et al. | Davidson | Failure to Return Execution |
Additional Defendants: C. W. Nance, J. Beaty, J. W. Dabbs, James Hamilton, R. W. Perles, James Mallock, A. Dunn, R. H. Wallace, J. H. Gowers. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 255 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1867 | Barnett R. Hughes v. Hezekiah Hill et al. | Williamson | Failure to Return Execution |
Additional Defendants: Samuel Walters, Jeremiah Hill, John M. Winstead, Cypress S. Bittich, Thomas Heals, John Edmondson. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 317 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1853 | Constantine Perkins et al. v. William Chaffin et al. | Lawrence | Failure to Return Execution |
Additional plaintiffs: Thomas Parks, William McKerrock, and Jefferson Martin. Additional defendants: Elihue M. Chaffin, John Chaffin, Thomas T. Christian, Lee M. Bentley, and John W. Stewart |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 244 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1921 | C. C. Castles v. O. H. Perry, Sheriff,& Maryland Casualty Co. | Shelby | Failure to Return Execution |
Perry, Sheriff of Shelby County, is sued for non-return, failure to make due and proper return of an execution in the case of C. C. Castles v. W. D. Mitchell. |
West | Range: 80 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1127 | 148 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1861 | Cook Baily& Company v. P. M. Pryor, et al. | Marion | Failure to Return Execution |
Other defendants: William Pryor; D. M. Ketcham; Washington Pryor; P. H. Grayson. Defendant was "sheriff" of Marion County & codefendants were his securities. For failure to return execution on judgment for $181.46 in plaintiff's case against W. F. Stone, A. M. Stone, & Charles Hale. |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1174 | 12 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1858 | David Koger v. John Donnell, et al. | DeKalb | Failure to Return Execution |
Additional defendants: Magnus. The defendants are the sheriff and his deputies. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 267 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | Daniel Seay v. N. C. McCullough & Securities | Wilson | Failure to Return Execution |
Sherriff of Wilson County |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 324 | 45 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1855 | Edwin H. Childress v. E. B. Bigley et al. | Davidson | Failure to Return Execution |
Additional Defendants: C. W. Nance, J. Beaty, J. W. Dabbs, James Hamilton, R. W. Perles, James Mallock, A. Dunn, R. H. Wallace, J. H. Gowers. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 255 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | Edwin Thompson v. George G. Perkins | Madison | Failure to Return Execution |
Perkins is the late sheriff of Madison County. |
West | Range: 84 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 9 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1866 | Fields v. John K. Edmundson | Davidson | Failure to Return Execution |
Debt bond included. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 317 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | Fred Erkman v. W. W. Carnes, Sheriff | Shelby | Failure to Return Execution | West | Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 705 | 40 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1860 | George W. Cunningham& A. Fall v. Foster Hooker et al. | Marshall | Failure to Return Execution |
Additional Defendants: James K. Poindexter, Thomas Lane. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 291 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1879 | Harriett Perdue v. J .K. Dodd, Sheriff, et al. | Sumner | Failure to Return Execution |
Additional defendants are listed as W.T. Bibb, R.D. Durham, Wm. Dodd, Wiley Brassell, S.E. McGee, R.T. Bush, T.R. Love, W.F. Summers, F.W. Gourie, W.H. McGee, J.M. Dunham, M. Elliott, H.E. Love, R.W. Donnell, and J.J. Turner. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 34 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1843 | Jesse Goodman v. John L. McMillan et al. | Stewart | Failure to Return Execution |
Additional Defendant: Hugh McMillan, Allen McCaskell, A. Wallace, James Lowery, A. Lowery. Listed as "Recorded in Book No. 2, 695-8." |
Middle | Range: 21 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 176 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1843 | James C. Jones (Governor), for the use of Caleb White v. E.W. Rose et al. | Giles | Failure to Return Execution |
Additional Defendant: W.M. Rose. |
Middle | Range: 21 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 176 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1874 | John Harlan, for use of J. C. Bradshaw v. W. E. Foust & securities | Wilson | Failure to Return Execution |
Additional defendants: H. D. Lester, J. A. Lester, W. M. Knight, George Oakley, J. H. Murphy, William Grisham, J. F. Organ, J. F. Coe, W. H. L. Baird. Failure on part of Sheriff to pay over money collected in an execution. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 344 | 16 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1872 | J. W. Johnston & Mary S. Johnston, exe. of H. B. Stubblefield v. C. F. Bruster, et al. | Warren | Failure to Return Execution |
Additional Defendants: S. P. Pennebaker, Asa Faulkner, A. F. Bruster, and John Ramsey. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 328 | 101 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1860 | James M. Melton v. J. H. Cowan & Perez Dickinson | Morgan | Failure to Return Execution |
Cowan & Dickenson, merchants in Knoxville, recovered $115 judgment against John C. Schooler & Julian H. Scott & Ferdinand Heydeman, which then came into Melton's hands as then-sheriff, who levied on 1 or more of Scott's horses to satisfy judgment. Scott posted delivery bond & either never delivered or no bidders at sale (Melton cannot recall), but Melton later sued by Cowan & Dickinson for insufficient return & judgment rendered against him, which Melton is asking be quashed. |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1175 | 46 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1858 | Jeremiah Boshears v. William Warren, et al. | Knox | Failure to Return Execution |
Additional defendants: William Carey, Thomas Weir, Robert Dossett. William Warren was the sheriff of Campbell County. The other defendants are his securities. He is charged with not returning an execution issued by the Knox County Court on Nov. 27, 1857. |
East | Range: 9 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1188 | 15 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1834 | James Pennington v. Jacob Dillon et al. | Overton | Failure to Return Execution |
Additional Defendants noted as Sherriff Valentine Matlock, Joseph Bates, William Yore, and William L. Armstrong. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 194 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1872 | James M. Hinton et al. v. William Franklin | Davidson | Failure to Return Execution |
Additional defendants: E. P. Fort, Eli S. Woods, J. T. Huggins, W. T. Briggs, M. S. Stewart, Thomas Hobson; recovery of judgment; Sherriff of Davidson County; failure to return execution |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 329 | 30 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1872 | John F. Clemmons v. W. H. Burk et al. | Wilson | Failure to Return Execution |
Additional Defendants: William H. Bond, W. H. R. Bond, B. J. Favor, Samuel Horbin. Constable of Wilson County. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 324 | 57 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1871 | L. Mino Bently v. William P. Kirk, et al. | Lawrence | Failure to Return Execution |
Additional Defendants: John White, J. M. Davis, and William Dearing. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 328 | 31 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1855 | Minos T. Cannon, et al. v. William Word | Bedford | Failure to Return Execution |
Appeal only. Cannon appealed the judgment rendered in favor of Word for $295. Additional plaintiffs: Robert J. Cannon and James M. Elliot. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 254 | 15 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1879 | M. M. Box v. E. D. Whitworth | Humphreys | Failure to Return Execution |
Additional defendants: W.C. Whitworth, Ed H. East, F.M. Dodson, Jerry Brown, and E.E. Buchanan. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 34 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | M. B. Howell v. C. M. Donelson | Davidson | Failure to Return Execution | Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 319 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1901 | M. Goldstein v. Ralph Davies | Shelby | Failure to Return Execution |
Sues for $250.00 won in a case against Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company after the case was appealed. The attorney for the plaintiff, the defendant of this cause, collected the $250.00 but refused to give the money to Goldstein. |
West | Range: 81 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 758 | 49 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1867 | Park Street v. W. W. Lyles | Davidson | Failure to Return Execution | Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 321 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1876 | R. W. McClelland v. Thomas Harrell | Crockett | Failure to Return Execution | West | Range: 84 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 36 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1888 | Riley & John Chambers v. James Sharp, Sheriff, et al | Scott | Failure to Return Execution |
Add dfnts: Sheriff's securities: J. F. Hatfield, David Trammel, I. M. James. James Sharp was sheriff of Scott Co. was charged with "failure to make due and proper return of an execution". The pltfs were due $140. |
East | Range: 19 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1844 | 51 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1860 | Rufus Armstrong v. Ezekel Rambo | Overton | Failure to Return Execution | Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 264 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1817 | Samuel Finley et al. v. Abraham Tipton | Blount | Failure to Return Execution |
Additional Defendants: John Coldwell, James Cook. |
East | Range: 5 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 55 | 18 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1877 | State, for the use of W. C. Scott, et al., exe. Of W. S. Scott, dec. v. John E. Vincent, et al. | Weakley | Failure to Return Execution |
Hon. Joseph K. Hawkins, 12th Judicial Circuit. Defendants- J.E. Vincent, Sheriff; John A. Rogers, John Sowers, Robert N. Irvine, K. Manning, W.G. Thomas. Sheriff Vincent and deputy, James C. Simmons, failed to pay receipts to plaintiffs upon judgment against the estate of W. S. Scott, dec. |
West | Range: 84 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 103 | 55 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1874 | State for use of John Apple v. Joseph Holladay et al. | Putnam | Failure to Return Execution |
Additional Defendants: William A. Enzor, John Holladay, J. T. Harves, J. F. Jarred, John L. Huddleston, W. R. Brown, Isaac E. Ferril. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 351 | 36 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1868 | Thomas H. Calloway, et al. v. V. H. Sturm | Knox | Failure to Return Execution |
Additional defendants: C.D. Champion, sheriff, and his other surety James S. Bradford. Sturm sued Champion for failing to make due and proper return of an execution which was issued by the clerk of the Circuit Court in 1867 in favor of plaintiff (Sturm) and against David M. Nelson for $625.52. |
East | Range: 9 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1232 | 18 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1869 | William H. Cheek v. Richard Lamberson | Smith | Failure to Return Execution |
Failure to return execution and failure to turn over money collected on execution. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 274 | 56 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1878 | W. T. Stamps v. F. F. Fonville, et al. | Bedford | Failure to Return Execution |
Additional defendants: James H. Harrison, C.A. Warren. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 46 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1881 | William Ehrman et al. v. W. E. Cook et al. | Henry | Failure to Return Execution |
Other defendants: J. W. Cook and B. F. Williams. |
West | Range: 83 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 186 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1858 | William Bennett v. John F. Lucky, et al. | DeKalb | Failure to Return Execution | Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 267 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1866 | Wiley McPherson v. Hezekiah Hill et al. | Williamson | Failure to Return Execution |
Additional Defendants: Samuel Walters, Jeremiah Hill, John M. Winstead, Cyrus S. Bittick, W. H. S. Hill, Thomas Holt, John Edmondson. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 307 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1874 | W. P. Hickerson v. James Wortham, et al. | Bedford | Failure to Return Execution |
Incomplete. Additional Defendants not named. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 344 | 7 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1853 | Williams E. Watkins v. B. M. Barnns | Davidson | Failure to Return Execution | Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 239 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1853 | William Luten v. Thomas L. Marshall, Trustee et al. | Davidson | Failure to Return Execution |
Additional defendants: William Pylus and John M. Riddleberg |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 244 | 0 | Order A Copy |