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| View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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| View Entry | 1845 | Andrew J. Donelson et al. v. Hugh Erwin | Davidson | Unlawful Detainer |
Additional plaintiff - Samuel P. Cheatham Amount of damages $1413.33 |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 218 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1883 | Allen Cranon v. William H. Johnson | Davidson | Unlawful Detainer |
Livery stable no. 122 S. Market Street Nashville, TN |
Middle | Range: 34 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 663 | 51 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1881 | Brien & Woodard v. C. Jane Swan | Davidson | Ejectment- Unlawful Detainer |
Brien & Woodard is M. M. Brien Sr. and Wiley Woodard. Brian Woodard is an additional defendant. Case regards the ownership of four town lots purchased at a tax sale. Case divided between two boxes. 79 pages in MT1150, unknown page count in MT50. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 50 | 79 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1880 | Brien& Woodard v. M. J. O'Shaughnessy, et al. | Davidson | Ejectment- Unlawful Detainer |
Suit involves the sell of property known as the Boyd place for back taxes. |
Middle | Range: 21 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 174 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1919 | City of Memphis v. B. A. Enloe, et al. | Davidson | Unlawful Toll |
Dispute of a fee charged claimed to be in excess of the constitutional amount. Additional defendants: George N. Welch, and H. H. Hannah, composing the Railroad Commission of Tennessee. |
Middle | Range: 21 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 123 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1871 | Calvin Morgan v. Mayor & City Council | Davidson | Taxation, Unlawful |
4th National Bank of Nashville |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 322 | 19 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1871 | Edgar Jones v. Mayor& City Council of Nashville, Tenn. | Davidson | Taxation, Unlawful |
Case involves illegal taxation, including Third National Bank of Nashville. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 304 | 22 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1875 | George Greer v. James L. Greer | Davidson | Unlawful Detainer | Middle | Range: 20 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 40 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1871 | Henry C. Shapard v. Mayor& City Council of Nashville | Davidson | Taxation, Unlawful |
Illegal taxation; Fourth National Bank of Nashville. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 292 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1874 | James Alexander, et al. v. Mayor & City Council of Nashville | Davidson | Taxation, Unlawful |
Additional Plaintiffs: H. C. Ellis, L. B. Fite, T. G. Harris, L. L. Harris, Samuel Nicholson, Samuel Wallace, Burrale, Bender, A. G. Adams, Mary A. Anderson, H. B. Buckner, J. Bloomstein, W. T. Berry and Co., R. C. Bransford, M. H. Bowman, R. B. Cheatham Continued: T.W. Nicholson, A.C. Lowson, J.W. Walton, R.C. Collier, Cluie Berenheim, E.W. Cole, J.M. Carsey, William Cowell, Hugh Douglas and Co.. William H. Evans, James Franklaud, J.H. Frith, R.H. Gardner, Trustee, Phineas Garrett, R.H. Gardner. |
Middle | Range: 21 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 74 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1811 | John Buchanan v. William Blakely & James Shute | Davidson | Ejectment- Unlawful Detainer |
Blakely & Shute violated terms of lease. John Buchanan sued to recover the use and possession of land unlawfully taken by Blakely & Shute. |
East | Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 11a | 5 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1889 | John Y. Cooper v. C. W. Nance | Davidson | Unlawful Detainer |
Cooper alleged that Nance brought an unlawful detainer against Cooper to recover a 25 acre tract of land near Nashville. 2 folders |
Middle | Range: 36 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1055 | 475 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1843 | James T. Love v. Williams Donelson | Davidson | Unlawful Detainer |
Amount of damages $100.00 |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 211 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1818 | John Den, lessee of N. W. Williams v. John C. McLemore | Davidson | Ejectment- Unlawful Detainer | Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 212A | 0 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1871 | John Porterfield v. Mayor & City Council | Davidson | Taxation, Unlawful |
4th National Bank of Nashville |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 322 | 27 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1871 | M. E. Nichols v. Mayor & City Council | Davidson | Taxation, Unlawful |
4th National Bank of Nashville |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 322 | 16 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1883 | Mrs. L. Garrett v. A. Hamilton | Davidson | Unlawful Detainer | Middle | Range: 34 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 652 | 48 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1865 | Mathew Watson v. Henry Bassett | Davidson | Unlawful Detainer |
Lot is on Cedar street between Cherry and Sumner |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 307 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1873 | R. F. Bell v. E. W White | Davidson | Ejectment- Unlawful Detainer | Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 316 | 46 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1872 | R. P. Jenkins v. W. G.Ewing | Davidson | Taxation, Unlawful |
4th National Bank of Nashville |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 322 | 7 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1873 | Robert F. Bell v. E. W. White | Davidson | Ejectment- Unlawful Detainer |
ejectment; land dispute |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 329 | 13 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1920 | State, Ex. Rel. v. A. B. Bell, Trustee, et al. | Davidson | Taxation, Unlawful |
The case has to do with whether women, who have just been granted the right to vote, must pay poll taxes (as men must) before being permitted to vote. The two women who have brought the case are Katharine T. Kenny and Caroline G. Kimbrough |
Middle | Range: 21 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 150 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1856 | State v. James Peck & Mary Gibbs | Davidson | Slaves, Unlawful Assembly |
Defendants are "freepersons of color" who are accused with harboring a runaway slave named Jack. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 259 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1874 | State v. Henry Moore | Davidson | Possession, Unlawful |
Charges include "carrying burglar's tools" and larceny. Two verdicts and sentences included. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 368 | 4 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1922 | State v. Scott Corum & Lou Ellis | Davidson | Unlawful Cohabitation | Middle | Range: 33 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 423 | 18 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1873 | State v. J. P. Bell & W. A. Bell col. | Davidson | Marriage, Unlawful |
cohabitation of a white man and an African American woman; legally married in Mississippi; marriage validity across state lines |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 339 | 19 | Order A Copy |