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View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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View Entry | 1922 | Abel Nelson, et al.v. John Bergman, et al | Grundy | Destruction of Property/ Petition to Halt Construction |
Additional defendants: G. I. Frazier and J. B. Hunt. |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 448 | 11 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1879 | A. G. Buffat v. William Ledgerwood | Knox | Property, Petition to Compel Delive |
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 |
East | Range: 20 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1639 | 115 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1879 | D. B. Cooper clerk& master v. M. E. Voss et al. | Maury | Property, Petition to Compel Delive |
Additional defendant - W. D. Davis |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 53 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1897 | Ella Bailey et al v. Enoch Brown | Williamson | Petition to Recover Land/Property |
Ella Bailey, wife os S. H. Bailey Jr.(dec.), and her children filed suit against the executors, heirs, and devisees of Enoch Brown, deceased. Bailey Jr. inherited an estate in trust from his mother Maria L. (Clark) Bailey. The plaintiffs contested the validity of note that Schuyler H. Bailey (dec. husband of Maria L.) transferred to Enoch Brown, which they claimed was misappropriated and against the trust deed of the estate. Plaintiffs requested the return of land conveyed by the note and debt on note. |
Middle | Range: 37 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1105 | 137 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1890 | East Tennessee & Kentucky Petroleum Co. v. The Jellico Mountain Coal and Coke Mining and Manufacturing Co. | Campbell | Petition to Compel Delivery of Property |
The plaintiff petroleum company sued the defendant company for the return all minerals in or on multiple tracts of land in Campbell County for which the plaintiffs claimed lease rights. |
East | Range: 19 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1789 | 494 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1905 | George A. Smith v. J. F. Charles & wife | Hawkins | Property, Petition to Compel Delive |
Court orders J.F. Charles and M.E. Charles (wife) to give over land. No other details surrounding the main cause of the case are given. Incomplete case. Smith is named in another case the same year in this box. |
East | Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1 | 3 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1889 | Harriet M. Yarber by next friend, R. B. Whitehorn v. East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railway Co. | Washington | Petition to Recover Land/Property |
Plaintiff sued the defendant railroad to show she was the rightful owner of a lot of land and home south of the railroad in Jonesboro, which her husband had deeded to her on the condition she withdraw her petition for divorce. She did halt her divorce but her husband attempted to convey the land secretly to another, who tried to sell it to the railroad. The plaintiff sought return of possession and damages and rents for the period when it was occupied. |
East | Range: 19 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1840 | 57 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1915 | H. C. Smith, et al.v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company, et al. | Davidson | Petition to Compel Delivery of Property |
Additional plaintiffs: J. Sam Webb, L. C. Bailey, L. R. Harris, N. T. Womack, Houston Thomas, and S. M. Price. Additional defendants: The Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway Company, and the Nashville Terminal Company. Suit involves transport rights of Livestock to Nashville. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 364 | 92 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | J. B. Cunningham, et al. v. Thomas Jordan, et al. | Roane | Property, Petition to Compel Delive |
No information pertaining to the case included. Incomplete case. |
East | Range: 5 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1a | 1 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1911 | N. G. Morris v. Illinois Central Railroad Co. | Obion | Destruction of Property/ Petition to Halt Construction |
Pltf. owner of 3 1/2 acres of land adjacent to railroad & across from 27 3/4 acres also owned by pltf. Pltf. sold 3 1/2 acres to railroad with the understanding that an access road to the other property would be provided. Agreement honored until 1903 when Illinois Central widened the track, obstructing access road & leaving plaintiff with no means of reaching his 27 3/4 acres. Plaintiff suing to have easement restored. _ folders. |
West | Range: 80 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1050 | 370 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1895 | Robert L. Stokes et al. v. L. Driver et al. | DeKalb | Petition to Recover Land/Property |
Plaintiff, Robert Stokes, filed for himself and as next of friend for his minor brothers John Morgan Stokes and Jefferson Davis Stokes. The plaintiffs contest the decree of the chancery court allowing the sale of the plaintiffs inherited tract of land to the defendants. The case the plaintiffs contested was A. A. Turntine, admr. et al. v. P. L. Powel et al. Plaintiffs claim there was no consent as two of the plaintiffs were minors and no proof shown that the decree was in the interest of the minors. |
Middle | Range: 36 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1060 | 91 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1885 | W. H. Fowlkes v. B. F. Brevard et al. | Benton | Petition to Compel Delivery of Property |
Co-defendant: A. A. Brevard. Complainant is a peanut merchant who is sued for the remainder of a lot of peanuts he purchased. The Brevards are Brevard & Son. |
West | Range: 83 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 271 | 148 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1860 | W. H. Calhoun v. Mayer& Warne et al. | Davidson | Property, Petition to Compel Delive |
Additional Defendants: Charles Wallender, Benjamin Sheilds. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 301 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1909 | W. M. Thompson v. Gatesy Naron & Millie Naron | Henry | Destruction of Property/ Petition to Halt Construction |
Cause of action: action to prevent defendants from erecting and maintaining a dam close to the dividing line of the parties' land thereby causing water to back up on the plaintiffs land and subsequent damages. |
West | Range: 80 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1170 | 195 | Order A Copy |