Incomplete case file. Defendant's brief only. Case sought to settle which body has the authority to decide the right of way- the railway company or the city government.

The defendant is charged with unlawful fencing up and obstructing a certain city street

Ezekiel Cleveland was charged with obstructing a public road. He built his personal fence across the road in question.

Brown fenced in an existing roadway that Johnson insisted was for public use. Johnson sued to gain partial ownership & liability for the fence. Brown then insisted he was owed $907 for damages of not being able to use the fence during the litigation. Incomplete case file; opinion only.

Holland Osburn [Osborn/Osborne] is charged with obstructing a public road. See also State v. Holland Osborn, et al., Knox County, 1867 [ET 1222] & State v. Holland Osborne, Knox County, 1868 [ET 1189].

A misdemeanor charge of obstruction of public road was challenged by James M. Lewis, Sr. who claimed the road was a private one. The road was built between 1843-1845 by the owner of the land James L. James. The land was next owned by Col. George Stakes who later sold it to James M. Lewis, Sr. The road obstructed by a fence built by James M. Lewis, Sr. ran from the mouth of Dr. Caster's Lane in Dist. 9 to Cumberland City via Steele's farm.

"The indictment charge the defendant with obstructing a public road laid out and established by the county court."

The parties own adjacent tracts of land. For some 20 years, the plaintiff would walk through part of Edward Robinson's (dec.) land without problems. The estate of Edward Robinson (dec.) was partitioning off his land and the defendant bought a tract and prevented the plaintiff access through it, creating an obstruction to a main road.

Final judgment only. Hall sued state for obstruction to the public road. Court ruled against Hall and fined him $10.

Incomplete case. Mentions Lavinia Jones, B. H. McGhee, and J. R. Jones. Case concerns the sale and ownership of land once inherited, then sold by siblings, many of which were women. The gender of the land owners figures into the legal ownership of the property. The Simpsons had a roadway going over their land, and wished to make it private. Saunders sued for right of way by prescription.

The plaintiff brought suit to prove that he owned the right of way to his lot from that of his neighbors/defendants land. He claims they acknowledged his right for twenty years but then recently built a rail fence and obstructed the road.

Dariox erected large, high fence in & across (& obstructing) road alleged to be 2nd or 3rd class public road, used by wagon carts/other vehicles, men on horseback & foot. Testimony re: use of the road, including that there was considerable settlement along Bays Mountain on both sides & they used road. Road also used by those going to Methodist & Quaker Meetinghouses. Daniel Spears said Dariox wanted to shut the road after death of her husband (who built road in first place as way to get to his mill).

Plaintiff and defendant were neighboring business owners in the City of Clarksville, Tennessee. Plaintiff was the owner of a mercantile jewelry, silverware, watch, and clock business, and the plaintiff was the owner of a mercantile hardware, agriculture, stove, and tin ware business. Plaintiff brought suit complaining that the defendant loaded and unloaded merchandise in front on plaintiff's building, thus obstructing traffic and causing him to lose customers.

Additional plaintiffs: F. M. Harris, William Clements, A. T. Mitchell, George E. Henry, Charles P. Henry, Marion Radford, J. W. Peebles and Homer Sides. Plaintiffs are sued for defendant for obstructing a public road that that runs through his property located on the banks of the Mississippi River. This road is used by the plaintiffs to transport goods to market. Oversize map of property in question is included. Map located at M-17-18.

Court of Origin: Unknown.

For removing some rails & changing a switch on the Rogersville & Jefferson Railroad.

The plaintiff was charged with building a fence across a public road.

Dillard erected a fence that obstructed a public road

The road obstructed led from Floyds to the McMinnville and Shelbyville Road. The obstruction consisted of logs and timbers laid across the road. Defendant claimed it was a private not a public road. The defendant used the road for hauling out timber and corn from that portion of his land up the hollow, and claimed he was the owner of the land upon which the road was built.

The defendant is charged with obstructing a road in Shelby Co. by allowing a fence to block the road.

Defendant cut a mill race across the Chattanooga-Cleveland road.

Additional Defendants: Abe Newhouse & George Vaughan. Defendants indicted for placing a truck car on railroad tracks. Train belonging to the Louisville & Nashville R. R. seriously damaged when it struck the car. Possibly an act of retaliation for insults suffered by Charley Trout of VA while traveling on the train.