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View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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View Entry | 1856 | Achiley Hare, et al. v. Elijah Kirkpatrick, et al. | Jackson | Debt |
Additional plaintiff: Samuel York. Additional defendant: Robert Nevins. amount of debt $250.00 |
Middle | Range: 21 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 179 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | A. Duncan v. George McClelland | Jackson | Property Dispute | Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 257 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1856 | Alice Cooper v. S. D. Brooks | Knox | Land and Title Dispute |
Case file is incomplete: brief only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 73 | 13 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | Anderson, Green & Co. v. John Barbee, et al. | Smith | Debt |
Brief for complainant only, no other documents included. Add. Defendants: John Barbee Jr., Rolin Barbee. |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 507 | 6 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | Bramblett v. Thomas F. Bates et al. | Overton | Estate Settlement |
Additional Defendants: W. M. Bates, Joseph Bates. Armstrong as Administrator. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 249 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | Benjamin T. Brown et al. v. Thomas A. Brown & John W. Brown, exe. of John Brown, dec. | Roane | Estate Dispute |
Additional plaintiffs: Rachel Brown, George Brown, Samuel & Jane Brown (minors). |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1179 | 19 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | Benjamin Curtis v. Bracket Estes, et al. | DeKalb | Debt Dispute |
Additional defendants: James Tubb, James McGuire, William Estes, and Leonora D. Finch. Debt revolves around "pork hogs." |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 259 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | Brent Spence v. Charlotte Turnpike Company& E. H. Childress | Davidson | Compensation | Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 259 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1856 | Caswell Renns v. M. Myers & Joseph Merchant | Hamilton | Debt Dispute |
Debt due by note to the plaintiff for an undisclosed amount. |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1180 | 12 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | C. W. Hall v. Charles J. McKinny | Hawkins | Land, Sale of |
Issue of a deed made out to the plaintiff for a tract of the defendant's land. |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1180 | 20 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | Chester Lasell v. L. E. Tucker et al. | Lincoln | Debt Dispute |
Additional Defendant: Epps Tucker. Case revolves around the question of whether one partner can buy or sell property under the banner of the partnership to pay off personal debts. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 261 | 132 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | Clarksville& Russellville Turnpike Co. v. James Reynolds | Montgomery | Land and Title Dispute | Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 253 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1856 | Catherine Wynn v. J. F. Munford et al. | Warren | Guardianship of Minors |
Additional Defendants: E. W. Taylor. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 249 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | David Jenkins v. William B. Reynolds et al. | Bradley | Land and Title Dispute |
Additional defendant: Calvin Thurman. Incomplete case file |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1182 | 10 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | E. L. Gardenshire v. Simeon Hinds | Overton | Estate Settlement |
Estate of Margaret Hinds, wife of Adam Gardenshire, dec. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 257 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | Edmund Cooper v. Herod F. Holt et. Al | Bedford | Slaves, Ownership of |
Sale of enslaved people - Simon and David (who died) and Nat (who was sold to Defendants after David's death) also Milly, Penny and Hannah. Additional Defendants: H. G. Holt |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 249 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | Elvarina Day v. Noah Day | Claiborne | Divorce |
Plaintiff has 4 children from previous husband, William Trease, dec. He left her land and some property to raise their children. She has since remarried the defendant who has beaten her and threatened to take all her property for his own and sell it. |
East | Range: 9 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1183 | 28 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | Enoch Ensley v. Morgan Vance | Davidson | Land and Title Dispute | Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 271 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1856 | Flora L. Ewing v. Joseph Thompson et al. | Bedford | Slaves, Ownership of |
Additional Defendants: Nicholas Cheatham, Edmond Cheatham, and William Little. Plaintiff is a minor and Milton Wheat is her legal guardian. Plaintiff sued for ownership of her deceased father's slaves. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 259 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | F. A. Copley & J. N. Watson v. R. Thompson et al. | Davidson | Land and Title Dispute |
Additional Defendants: Martha Thompson, and the Nashville Building and Loan Association. Case also involves a debt dispute over wages worked. Exhibits include newspaper clippings. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 265 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | George W. Roller v. Mark W. Harper | Sullivan | Personal Property Dispute |
Roller, plaintiff, and Harper, defendant, had agreed to swap horses. Harper's bay gilding was lame with one leg swollen and stiff whereas Roller's bay gilding was a fine draft horse. Harper needed a better horse for trip to Virginia but Roller refused to swap for the lame horse. Roller agreed to exchange on condition if horse got better while Harper made trip. Horse died possibly from snake bite. Harper refused to return Roller's horse. Roller charges Harper is cheating him out of his horse. |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1173 | 30 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | Green B. Thompson v. Garrett Sadler | Jackson | Estate Settlement | Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 249 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1856 | G. Lee Price et al. v. William H. Crouch, admr. Of C.B. Reynolds, dec. | Washington | Breach of Contract |
Reynolds did not deliver the contracted amount of French Brandy Price paid for. Crouch had obtained a judgment against Price for $148. Price charges such judgment as unjust and oppressive. |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1181 | 39 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | Hannah Smith, et al. v. Robert C. Hill, et al. | Warren | Estate Dispute |
Other plaintiffs: Margaret Smith |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 260 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | Hugh McAdams v. Thomas Gibson exe. et al. | Marshall | Property Dispute |
Additional Defendants: Henry Bagley. Land sold as school land. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 249 | 90 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | Hale v. Witt | Jefferson | Breach of Contract | East | Range: 5 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 31 | 1 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1856 | Hiram Holt et al. v. Isaac B. Holt et al. | Bedford | Estate Dispute |
Additional Plaintiffs: Kenneth M. Prybus and his wife Eleanor Prybus- Executors of Jordan Holt, John Wiggins, and with, Mary K. Wiggins. Additional Defendants: too many to name here. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 257 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | Hiram Remine v. Joseph Haynes & George F. Gillespie | Washington | Injunction |
Hiram hired Joseph Geager (not a millwright) to build saw mill dam across waters of Big Limestone but after frame built, parties agreed it would not do. Geager agreed to take $50 for work done & abandon it. Hiram employed def Haynes (was a millwright) to complete work & also build sawmill. When work not quite done, he & son (who was helping him) became ill with dysentery & had to stop work. Hiram executed note to Haynes anyway; dispute arose re completion & quality; Haynes now seeking relief from note. |
East | Range: 9 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1188 | 133 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | I.M. & F.H. Preston v. John Douglass; James L. West v. I.M. & F.H. Preston | Grainger | Motion for Appeal |
Defendants previously secured a judgment against the plaintiffs Preston for $546. The plaintiffs now are attempting to overrule the previous judgment based on a restatement of the facts. |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1180 | 39 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | James M. Andrews, et al. v. Ethelred Andrews, et al. | Robertson | Estate Dispute |
Other plaintiffs: William M. Andrews. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 260 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | Jane Dennis v. James L. Riggs, et al. | Montgomery | Estate Dispute |
Other defendants: Elizabeth Riggs |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 260 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | John Riggins v. Leigh Chrisenhall | Montgomery | Breach of Contract |
Defendant did not build a saw mill as contracted to do so by the Plaintiff. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 260 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | John S. Brien& G. D. Brien v. Ledbetter & Bostick | Montgomery | Other |
Cause of Action: Supersedeas. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 260 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | John W. Allison v. Eli H. Stephens et al. | Bedford | Partnership Settlement |
Additional Defendant: Alice Fisher. Case involves a debt dispute revolving around a pack of mules. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 261 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | J. B. Stephenson v. W. H. Childress et al. | Lawrence | Slaves, Ownership of |
Additional Defendants: Boker White, W. P. Lick, W.C. Stephenson, and William Davis. Case involved an ownership dispute over a slave named "Dolly." |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 259 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | James Mullins v. Francis M. Boyd et al. | Bedford | Estate Dispute |
Additional Defendants: John M. Morrow, Robert B. Davidson. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 249 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | Jane Goolsbury v. Boling & Richard C. Gordon | Hickman | Deed Dispute | Middle | Range: 33 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 422 | 96 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1856 | Jane C. Looney v. Benjamin Looney | Knox | Petition for Divorce |
Parties are married & lived happily for several yrs but before this bill filed, def.'s behavior changed, becoming violent & inhumane toward pla., including def. sleeping w/axe on his side of bed to intimidate pla., walking out on her & children for long periods, & having relations w/slave. Parties amassed $70,000 estate, real & monetary.deal w/parties' dealings after SC ruled in Jane's favor re alimony, incl Def's reconciliation attempts via letter & Jane's replies. |
East | Range: 9 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1142 | 275 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | John Alison v. James M. Davis et al. | Washington | Land and Title Dispute |
Additional defendants: Thomas J. Powell and Albert J. Tipton. Powell had recovered judgment against Alison for $27.66. Execution was returned due to Alison not having personal property to satisfy judgment. Alison demands that title to tract of land be divested from Tipton and Davis and vested in himself as well as an account taken of rents and profits due to Alison. |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1181 | 46 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | John McMahan v. Jackson Grubb & R. J. Engledon | McMinn | Contract for Labor and Materials |
Grubb & Engledon were partners in tailoring business and McMahan a farmer. Both parties had an arrangement in which McMahan furnished Grubb & Engledon with produce in exchange for their tailoring clothes for him. It was also agreed that both Grubb's & Engledon's accounts were blended. Plaintiff unaware of change in relationship between def'ts who later dispute in three other cases about account balances (what they did or did not receive). |
East | Range: 9 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: Oversize Box 17 | 80 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | John Walker v. Cowan Dickinson & Co. | Sevier | Debt Settlement |
Partners James Cowan, Perez Dickinson and Thomas W. Humes [?] attempted to collect Walker's notes dating to 1837 and 1841.. |
East | Range: 9 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1188 | 53 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | John Wood v. Archibald Stone | Cannon | Debt | Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 258 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1856 | Joseph M. Bragg v. William M. French, et al. | Warren | Estate Dispute |
Additional defendants: John Hopkins, George Glasscock, Ward French, and Robert French |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 258 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | James H. Magill & wife& James A. Shaddan& wife v. Anthony Rankin, admr. Of William Rankin, dec., et al. | Greene | Estate Dispute/ Settlement |
Missing first several pages. Case was fragile with what appears to rodent damage. Additional parties: Thomas Rankin, Margaret Wier, John M. Rankin, Isabella Wilson, William Rankin dec., James Magill. Rankin, as only a nominal admr., was accused of diverting funds from the estate to his own accounts. |
East | Range: 5 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 22 | 170 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | James L. Scudder v. George Kimbro | Bedford | Slaves, Ownership of | Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 259 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1856 | James S. Boyd v. Anthony L. Maxwell, Jr. et al | Knox | Contract Dispute and Damages |
Add. defendant: C. Porvell. Plaintiff entered into a contract to furnish for the defendants working under the firm name of Maxwell Briggs & Company a large amount of lumber for a rail road bridge. sued for the recovery of $4,000 in goods and labor for which the plaintiff was never paid by the defendant's company. |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1161 | 218 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | James Cox, Guardian of Mary F. Garrison v. Jacob Garrison | Knox | Slaves, Ownership of |
Cases involves the ownership of two Negros. Others named in the case are James Cox Sr. and Thomas Calloway |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1179 | 43 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | John Swann v. Shadrach I. Bare [Bear] & John P. Seahorn [Sehorn] | Jefferson | Breach of Contract |
Swann negotiated a contract with Bare [Bear] for Bare to drive fifty-two head of hogs to the Southern market. Bear "has since absconded to parts unknown." Hogs, weighing 14,200 pounds were to be sold at 3.5 cents per pound. Others involved: L. D. Franklin, George W. Carter, and Samuel Prewitt. |
East | Range: 9 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1179 | 110 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1856 | Lincoln Nicholas v. John D.& Stephen Ward | White | Debt, Execution on | Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 273 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1856 | Lewis W. Jordan, exe. v. William Bower, Jr. et al | Roane | Estate Dispute |
Plaintiff is executor of the estate of William Bower, Sr. (dec.). W. Bower, Jr. is administrator pendent lite of the estate of W. Bower, Sr. Additional defendants are heirs of Bower and listed in the file. |
East | Range: 9 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1154 | 15 | Order A Copy |