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View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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View Entry | 1855 | Abner Phillips & Joshua Owens et al. v. William Meredith | Fentress | Debt |
Amount of total debt is unclear |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 252 | 80 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1922 | Andy Byrd v. State | Fentress | Liquor Violation |
Unlawfully transporting intoxicating liquor. |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 423 | 25 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1921 | Alf Hall v. State | Fentress | Carrying an Illegal Weapon |
Alf Hall was charged with illegally carrying a pistol and was sentenced to a fine of $50.00 and 90 days in the work house. |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 429 | 28 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1855 | Bank of Tennessee v. William C. Beaty | Fentress | Ejectment | Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 250 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1883 | Burton Stephens, et al. v. Pleasant Taylor, et al. | Fentress | Land and Title Dispute |
Additional plaintiffs: B. R. Stockton, Isaac Stockton. Additional defendant: Thomas Owen. |
Middle | Range: 34 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 674 | 199 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1847 | Collins Roberts v. William Lee | Fentress | Ejectment |
Amount of damages, $130.00. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 224 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1919 | C. O. West v. State | Fentress | Murder | Middle | Range: 21 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 141 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1833 | Cobb et al. v. Frederick E. Ross | Fentress | Breaking and Entering |
F.B. Cobb, P.B. Cobb, James Shields, William L. Atkinson, Barsheba Cobb, William Murray, John Harris, John Cacke, John Williams - Plaintiffs. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 197 | 204 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1855 | Conrad Crockett, et al. v. Elijah Pile | Fentress | Ejectment |
Additional Plaintiffs: John Crockett, William Crockett, Joseph Crockett, James Crockett, Thomas Cobb and his wife Sarah, Benjamin Bramum and his wife Polly, heirs of William Crockett, dec. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 250 | 10 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1832 | Commissioners of the town of Monroe in Overton County v George Gordon et al | Fentress | Land and Title Dispute |
This case relates to land grant #300 in the name of John Sevier for 32,000 acres dated 1795 in the Middle Tennessee District. Some of the land was now a part of Overton and Fentress Counties. The land was on the Cumberland River with a plat to subdivide. Sevier sold the land to Gordon and his descendants. Gordon donated the land to the Commissioners of the and town of Monroe. George W. Sevier and William Chilton were to divide the land. |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 372 | 120 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1885 | David Belk, Sr. v. M. R. Millsaps | Fentress | Debt on Account |
Account was an open account for "feeding, and also for wintering cattle" |
Middle | Range: 34 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 612 | 20 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1832 | Early Albertson v. William McGee & James H. Beeson | Fentress | Debt | Middle | Range: 33 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 376 | 4 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1835 | F. A. Ross v. Elijah Pile, et al | Fentress | Forcible Entry and Detainer |
Additional Defendant: Elizabeth Simpson |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 192 | 28 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1833 | Frederick A. Ross v. Pharaoh B. Cobb, et al | Fentress | Land and Title Dispute |
Frederick Ross claimed on behalf of John & Catherine Blair, orphans & step children to Joseph Cobb whom was not their legal guardian, that their rights as heirs were impeded. Joseph leased out land belonging to the orphans, without the authority to do so. Case was filed on their behalf to identify the legal owners of the land. |
East | Range: 5 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 23 | 10 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1833 | Frederick Ross A. v. John Den leesee et al. | Fentress | Ejectment-Unlawful Detainer |
John Den is lessee of John Blair Additional Defendants: Catharine Blair, Betty Cobb, Mary Cobb, Nancy Cobb, Sally Cobb, Pharoah Cobb, Frederick Cobb |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 192 | 22 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1915 | Fentress Coal & Coke Company v. H. M. Dodd, admr. | Fentress | Injury |
additional defendant: H. M. Dodd, administrator of James Bennett |
Middle | Range: 21 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 94 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1920 | Fannie Copley v. White Oak Coal Company | Fentress | Damages for Wrongful Death |
Additional parties: George W. Copley. Fannie Copley is the administrator of the estate of her husband George W. Copley who was killed while working in a mine. |
Middle | Range: 21 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 144 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1886 | Flem Williams v. Pickens & Long | Fentress | Debt on Account |
Defendants: Johnathan Pickens, A. G. Long. Offense: debt due by note under $1,000. Others: S. H. Pile, A. B. Williams, H. W. Williams, L. Delk, L. C. Wright; Mitchell Wright, Justice of the Peace. |
Middle | Range: 34 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 629 | 32 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1855 | Gov. Campbell for the use of J. Low v. Jesse Cobb et al. | Fentress | Debt Dispute |
Additional Defendants: William Wright, Peter Reagan, and Mitchell Fragg. File includes a suit for the "use of James Low, surviving partner of the state firmà" |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 247 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1906 | George Cooper v. Nancy Wilson | Fentress | Breaking and Entering | Middle | Range: 33 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 525 | 79 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1879 | General F. Marion v. State | Fentress | Robbery |
Marion was charged with robbery of Mathias Wright a pocket book that contained bank notes that totaled to large sum of money. |
East | Range: 19 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1689 | 127 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1828 | Georgle Helm v. Joshua Storie | Fentress | Ejectment | Middle | Range: 33 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 374 | 53 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1842 | Hiram Findely v. William R. Campbell | Fentress | Debt |
Amount of debt $50.00 |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 188 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1873 | Isaac Stockton v. John Porterfield et al. | Fentress | Forcible Entry and Detainer |
Additional plaintiff: Susan Scott. George S. Kingston, agent for Porterfield. Case involves a dispute over a judgment that was given to Porterfield to recover a tract of land from John Choate. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 19a | 95 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1869 | Jesse M. Wood v. James M. Wright | Fentress | Debt Dispute |
The parties were former business partners and one claims the other owes him his share for the sale of cattle |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 274 | 50 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1855 | John Goldston& Charles Kron v. Thomas Moat | Fentress | Debt Dispute |
Plaintiffs are carpenters appealing a claim against the quality of their work. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 247 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1842 | James Cowan et al. v. Abner Phillips& William M. Simpson | Fentress | Debt |
Additional plaintiffs: Phillip Dickinson and William Dickinson |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 385 | 8 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1888 | James B. Crockett v. Edward Nichols | Fentress | Unlawful Entry |
The plaintiff sued the defendants Nichols and B. R. Stockton (?), as agent of Joseph Stockton (?), for unlawful entry and possession of a 5,000 acre tract of land in the County, to which the plaintiff claimed ownership. |
East | Range: 19 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1855 | 18 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1872 | John C. Wright v. Susan Scott, et al. | Fentress | Bond Dispute |
In 1868, George S. Kington went to Wright requesting him to be his security in his prosecution against Susan Scott and John Chate for forcible entry and detainer. Wright later found out that Kington had withdrawn from said suit. Judgment was rendered against John Porterfield and Wright as security for $106.50. Wright charged he never signed a bond as security for Porterfield but for Kington. Wright wanted supersedeas against Scott to be restrained from enforcing execution and judgment quashed. |
East | Range: 9 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1246 | 11 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1840 | John Eakin et al. v. John Allenton et al. | Fentress | Damages |
Additional plaintiffs - William Eakin, Spencer Eakin and Thomas Eakin - additional defendant - Pemberton Gatewood Amount of damages $202.77 |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 203 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1848 | Jonathan Wilson et al. v. William Chilton& Fuller Grisham. | Fentress | Ejectment |
Additional Plaintiffs: Hamet Wilson who is under age but represented by his guardian Eliza Wilson. Defendants name variously listed as either William Chilton or Fuller Grisham -- Not sure of the cause. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 225 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1855 | John G. Prigge et al.. v. Wilson L. Wright et al.. | Fentress | Debt |
Additional plaintiffs - Joseph Chamberlain and William B. James - additional defendants - Jesse Cobb, John W. Simpson and John Culver Amount of debt $500.00 |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 252 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1832 | Joseph Poor v. James Leeton | Fentress | Debt Dispute |
Dispute over the payment of a note between the two parties. Amount of note was $3.75 |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 372 | 17 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1842 | James G. Cecil, et al. v. Berry Gatewood, et al. | Fentress | Debt |
other plaintiffs: William J. Kindrick. |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 385 | 7 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1932 | J. G. Reagan v. C. K. McBroom | Fentress | Election Dispute |
Opinion only. Fentress County case found in East TN boxes. |
East | Range: 5 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 83 | 17 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1909 | James McCann v. Albert Rich, et al. | Fentress | Replevin |
Additional Defendants: Ellis Delk, Wadie Delk. Replevin for the possession of a cow. |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 526 | 37 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1886 | L. L. Warren & Company v. John C. Wright | Fentress | Debt |
Plntff. won a judgment of $334.75 against the deft. on 14 Aug. 1880. On 14 Dec. 1880 deft. paid $150 which he asked the court to credit toward the judgment. Court agreed & issued an execution for $194, the balance of the judgment, plus interest due of $66.12, making a total of $262.12. Deft. then asked to appeal his case & the court agreed. Plntff. stated that their records did not show that they had received any payments from the deft. since winning the judgment. See: ET, Box 1695. |
East | Range: 19 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1874 | 12 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1873 | M. R. Millsaps v. Robert Hurst | Fentress | Debt | Middle | Range: 32 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 341 | 47 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1892 | M. V. Huddleston and Rachel Conatser v. State | Fentress | Lewd Behavior |
For "unlawfully, openly, publicly, notoriously, recklessly amd scandalously did dwell, live and cohabit together as man and wife..." |
East | Range: 19 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1750 | 22 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1922 | Robert Brooks v. State | Fentress | Liquor, Sale of Illegal |
The plaintiff was charged with selling liquor within four miles of a schoolhouse, selling liquor without an oath or bond and transporting liquor from one point to another in Fentress County |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 401 | 23 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1904 | R. B. Wright v. State | Fentress | Liquor, Sale of Illegal |
Opinion only. Wright was charged with selling liquor without license and convicted. He was fined $50 and sentenced to 6 months in County jail. The judgment was reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial. |
Middle | Range: 35 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 827 | 1 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1841 | Sanders& Martin v. William Simpson et al. | Fentress | Debt |
Additional defendants: Abner Phillips, James H. Beason. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 206 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1849 | State v. J. F.& W. F. Scott | Fentress | Nuisance |
Nuisance as overseer of a road in damage to the citizens of the state. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 228 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1849 | State v. Evan D. Frogge & R. Richardson, et al | Fentress | Other |
Additional defendants: Sampson Evans, William Richardson, Thomas Riley, William C. Davidson, Thomas Beaty, and James Beeson. Cause for securities as sheriff in the amount of $20.79. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 228 | 14 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1875 | State v. Milton Davidson | Fentress | Assault and Battery |
Davidson was charged with malicious stabbing and originally sentenced to two years in prison. Cornelius Nicholas' testimony states that he & his brother had visited the Davidsons about going to Jamestown on an errand. Things became unfriendly & they began name calling, when Milton Davidson stabbed one of the Nicholas's in the shoulder. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 9 | 108 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1874 | Samuel Oxford v. Polly Ann Oxford | Fentress | Divorce |
The Oxfords were married in 1865. Samuel claimed to be an "old man alone in the world." He alleged that Polly deceived him into marriage, taking advantage of his small estate in order to conceal her illicit relationships with other men. Two years after they were married Polly kicked him out of his own house. Samuel asked for a divorce, and to be relieved of responsibility for any debts she created. |
Middle | Range: 20 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 13a | 24 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1843 | State v. Leonard Murry | Fentress | Counterfeiting |
Defendant is accused of circulating a fraudulent bank bill of the Northern Bank of Kentucky. |
Middle | Range: 21 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 176 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1880 | State v. Coonrod Crockett | Fentress | Liquor, Sale of Illegal | Middle | Range: 21 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 158 | 11 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1922 | State. V. Dewey Robbins | Fentress | Carrying an Illegal Weapon | Middle | Range: 21 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 175 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1860 | State v. George Smith | Fentress | Failure to Perform Official Duties |
Defendants failed to put mail markers on the road to the danger of the citizenry at large. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 293 | 0 | Order A Copy |