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The files located in the Tennessee Supreme Court Cases represent an especially valuable resource for historical and genealogical research at the Tennessee State Library and Archives [TSLA].
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View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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View Entry | 1935 | American National Insurance Co. v. Cora Lee Widby | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies | East | Range: 8 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 892 | 460 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1935 | Aetna Life Insurance Company v. Clara Mournan, admr. of William Mournan, dec. | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies | East | Range: 9 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1059 | 147 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1937 | Annie B. Smith v. American National Insurance Company | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Smith took out a life insurance policy on her husband Lawrence for $500. The insurance company claims that due to his physical state at the time of filing, that payment on the policy cannot be made, that he was ill when the policy was taken out, and therefore uninsurable. Mr. Smith suffered from ulcers, a perforation of the stomach, and other digestive problems. |
East | Range: 10 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1557 | 448 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1944 | American National Insurance Company v. Lula McFetridge | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Carrick McFetridge, Lula's husband, had a life insurance policy for $430. When he died in1944, the insurance company claimed that there had been a mistake on the policy: that it should have been written for $230. Because Lula & Carrick were illiterate, the insurance company faulted them for not noticing that a policy on a 48-year-old man could not be written for more than $230. (2 copies of case) |
East | Range: 8 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 797 | 36 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1940 | Clyde Lemarr v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Disability claim. Exhibits include insurance documents, policies, and payment schedules, doctor's certificate, newspaper clipping. |
East | Range: 6 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 487 | 296 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1947 | Emil A. Schaad v. New York Life Insurance Co. | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Plaintiff seeks full disability payment on policy held by him. Exhibits include correspondences, x-rays, insurance documents. Xrays located in ET Oversize Box 14. |
East | Range: 7 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 625 | 331 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1936 | Erouth Buis v. Universal Life Insurance Co. | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Erouth Buis (female) took out a sick policy, paid the premium, and fell ill the next morning. Three attending physician certificates state she suffered from pleurisy. Erouth was confined to bed about 4 weeks. Universal claimed she was sick at the time the policy was made. Testimony summaries: Erouth Buis, Dr. A. J. Bacote & Dr. O. B. Taylor. The doctors were identified as graduates of Meharry Medical College. Exhibits include policy & physician reports. Buis lived at 337 Bell St., Knoxville. |
East | Range: 8 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 962 | 34 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1933 | Eva M. Buckles v. John Hancock | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
The plaintiff after the issuance of said group policy and while in the employ of the American Glanzstoff Corporation and while said policy was full effect became totally disabled. The defendant failed to furnish the payment. |
East | Range: 20 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1576 | 133 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1935 | Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company v. O. B. Henderson, Trustee | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies | East | Range: 8 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 861 | 102 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1934 | Frank Naill v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Naill sued for the sum of $1020.80 plus interest on a group policy of health insurance issued by defendant to Jefferson Woolen Mills of Knoxville, Naill's employer. Exhibit: policy certificate, hours and wages for employee Frank Naill. |
East | Range: 7 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 744 | 271 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1914 | Hal S. Harris, exe. v. Security Mutual Life Insurance Company | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Opinion only. |
East | Range: 5 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 92 | 3 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1946 | J. W. Gentry v. Maryland Casualty Co. | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Exhibits: banking acct. book and statements, policy/contract, correspondence, receipts, itemized lists and prices on several small pieces of paper, business account book, large stack of checks. |
East | Range: 6 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 464 | 330 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1886 | Lewis & Carhart v. Knoxville Fire Insurance Company | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
This folder contains two briefs, only. |
East | Range: 9 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1091 | 9 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1891 | Lenoir Manufacturing Company, for use of Insurance Companies v. East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railway Co. | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Plaintiff Insurance Companies: Knoxville Fire Insurance Co., East Tennessee Insurance Co., Island Home Insurance Co., Planters Fire & Marine Insurance Co., and too many other companies to list. The suit was brought on behalf of the Lenoir Manufacturing Company by the plaintiff insurance companies to recover amounts paid by them for the loss of personal property charged to have been burned by sparks from the defendant's engine as the result of the defendant's negligence. |
East | Range: 19 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1796 | 316 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1892 | Lizzie Lane v. S. L. Lane | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
The case involved benefits awarded as a result of the death of W.A. Lane (husband of the plaintiff and brother of the defendant), claimed by both parties. |
East | Range: 8 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 787 | 11 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1934 | Life & Casualty Insurance Co. v. Lethia Wells | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies | East | Range: 8 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 807 | 59 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1937 | Lela Shuford v. North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies | East | Range: 8 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 942 | 60 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1935 | Metropolitan Life Insurance Company v. Frank Naill | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies | East | Range: 8 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 819 | 88 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1938 | Maggie Crippen v. Industrial Life& Health Insurance Company | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Plaintiff was beneficiary of policy belonging to Elizabeth Whiteside, dec. |
East | Range: 9 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1114 | 179 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1935 | New York Life Insurance Policy v. Edgar L. Keener | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies | East | Range: 8 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 818 | 71 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1935 | New York Life Insurance Company v. Edgar L. Keener | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies | East | Range: 8 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 819 | 142 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1942 | Stella Wright v. Home Beneficial Association | Knox | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Exhibits include insurance documents. |
East | Range: 7 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 625 | 86 | Order A Copy |