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View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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View Entry | 1872 | Andrew McKenzie, et al. v. John Meeks, et al. | McNairy | Debt |
Original court records from 1861 were destroyed during the Civil War. Additional plaintiffs: wife, Sarah McKenzie, D. R. Howell & Mary Ann Howell, children of Benjamin & Mary Howell, D. Ray, D. P. Ray. Additional defendants: Daniel McDaniel & John Cale. |
West | Range: 84 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 25 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1892 | A. J. Tays exe. et al.v. R. A. Tays et al | McNairy | Estate Dispute |
Additional parties: Calvin Tays dec., Mary E. Coputon, James Coputon, Margurite M. Attins, J. E. Attins, J. P. Tays, Martha C. Blair, John Blair, J. C. Tays, |
West | Range: 83 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 340 | 324 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1905 | A. B. Hamm & Co. v. J. R. Gooch | McNairy | Debt |
This case is a controversy over a balance of the proceeds of two wagon load of un ginned cotton. Both parties claim that they are owed a portion of the proceeds to fulfill a debt that was owed to them. |
West | Range: 82 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 700 | 59 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1895 | Abbie Hurley v. R. E. McKinney, trustee, et al.. | McNairy | Debt |
Additional defendants: A. B. Hamm, admr. of J. R. Hurley, dec.; T. J. Hurley, Sr.; G. W. Hurley Sr., L. A. Hurley, William & Rebecca Moss, B. W. & Josie Passinger, J. W. T. & Ellen Derryberry, John & Lizzie Hamm, William & Lydia Springer. J. R. Hurley, dec. borrowed $1,400 for which a deed of trust was given. Two folders. |
West | Range: 82 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 623 | 525 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1877 | B. P Moore & wife May Moore v. Calvin Shull | McNairy | Promissory Note | West | Range: 84 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 139 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1914 | B. F. Howell v. Southern Railroad Company | McNairy | Damages |
The plaintiff lost some hogs and goats, killed by the railroad. |
West | Range: 79 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1314 | 46 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1877 | B. S. Carr, admr. of America Bevels, dec. v. Samuel C. Jones, et al. | McNairy | Debt, Execution on |
Additional defendants: John L. Wisdom, Calvin Shull, John H. Duke & D. M. Wisdom. Shull, Duke & J. L. & D. M. Wisdom executors of William S. Wisdom, deceased. America Bevels died testate in 1858. Carr administrator of her estate. |
West | Range: 84 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 98 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1897 | City of Selmer v. P. H. Thrasher | McNairy | Obstructing a Public Road/Road/Right of Way |
The defendant is charged with unlawful fencing up and obstructing a certain city street |
West | Range: 82 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 479 | 27 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1914 | Charles Steadman v. State | McNairy | Liquor Violation |
sold liquor within four miles of a schoolhouse; fined $50 and 6 months in jail and "hard labor" |
West | Range: 79 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1407 | 13 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1920 | Carl Beard v. Nola Robinson | McNairy | Replevin |
Originally, Carl Beard alleged that Dick Cooper unlawfully seized and maintains in his possession one red heifer yearling with a little white under its belly. The paperwork states that Nola Robinson was substituted in these pages, for Dick Cooper. July 13, 1920. Defendant is also referred to in papers as Nola Roberson, Nola Robertson. Nola is the daughter of Dick Cooper. |
West | Range: 78 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1694 | 21 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1884 | D. P. Gibson& Wife v. R. T. McIntyre | McNairy | Debt |
Additional Plaintiff: Dicia Ann Gibson. |
West | Range: 83 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 264 | 15 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1886 | Dixon Etheridge v. Mobile & Ohio R.R. Co. | McNairy | Damages |
Plaintiff is sued for damages for the death of a work ox valued at $40. |
West | Range: 83 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 309 | 43 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1912 | D. J. Howard v. H. M. Meek | McNairy | Damages |
Cause of action: $5,000 damages for personal injuries |
West | Range: 80 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1286 | 94 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1903 | E. E. Walker v. Mobile & Ohio Railroad Co. | McNairy | Damages |
Plaintiff originally sued railroad for killing 2 yearlings valued under $50. Date & circumstances of accident not given. Walker won judgment against railroad of $8 and $5.80 costs. |
West | Range: 81 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 873 | 7 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1926 | G. A. Shelton v. The Home Insurance Co. | McNairy | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Plaintiff was suing for $1,500 in damages for the value of certain goods and store buidling and furnitures of which Shelton, the owner situated on the west side of the public road at Millidgville and which sum the defendant owes on a policy of insurance by which the defendant insured said goods and house against loss and damage by fire from September 1921 to September 1922 at noon for $1500. 2 folders. |
West | Range: 77 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1889 | 255 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1886 | Goodbar & Co. v. Prather Simpson & Ewing Bransford Gaines v. Prather Simpson | McNairy | Debt |
Also contains brief information on Goodbar & Co. v. J. L. Smith (1882). |
West | Range: 83 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 296 | 96 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1905 | G. W. Martindale, admr. for Oliver Montague, dec. v. The Mobile & Ohio Rail Road Company | McNairy | Damages for Wrongful Death |
Cover sheet missing. Sued for $1999. Plaintiff claimed that rail road cars ran over Oliver Montague while he was carrying jugs of water to a kitchen rail car, injuring him to the point of death. Lawsuit also mentions the St. Louis & San Francisco Rail Road Company. |
West | Range: 80 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1227 | 85 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1883 | J. R. Alexander v. R. B. Briggs | McNairy | Appeal for New Trial |
R. B. Riggs surviving partner of N. C. Riggs & Son. Plaintiff earlier brought suit against defendant and won. Details of this lawsuit are not given. |
West | Range: 83 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 213 | 40 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | James H. Fry v. Samuel L. Walker | McNairy | Debt Dispute |
Debt for lumber furnished for building a home. |
West | Range: 84 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 11 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | J. F. Russom v. J. H. Mitchell & Sons | McNairy | Breach of Contract |
For use of a cultivation machine. |
West | Range: 82 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 640 | 64 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1901 | Jinks Patterson v. Mobile & Ohio Rail Road Co. | McNairy | Damages |
Railroad was sued for the death of 5 pigs & the crippling of 3 pigs in a train wreck. Witnesses included Stant Sweat, John Sweat, Smith Leonard, John Walker, J. D. Hickey (locomotive engineer) & G. D. Howard (engine fireman). |
West | Range: 81 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 784 | 16 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1909 | J. P. Williams v. Mobile& Ohio R. R. Co | McNairy | Damages |
Damages were over the loss of a cow. |
West | Range: 80 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1224 | 35 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1930 | Joe Kirk v. Mrs. Lizzie Kirk | McNairy | Divorce |
The Kirks were married in 1901 in McNairy County. They had children of the following names and ages at the time of the case: Alma (25 years old), Lena (22 years old), John (18 years old), Lessie (16 years old), Uria (14 years old), Mamie (11 years old), Stella (5 years old), and Winfred (3 years old). |
West | Range: 77 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 2036 | 86 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1930 | J. P. Sipes, et. al. v. H. C. Sanders, et. al. | McNairy | Estate Settlement |
Additional plaintiffs: J. A. Sipes, Mrs. Sarah Bell Mitchell, Mrs. Ollie Gray, Parker Sipes, Howard Sipes. Additional defendants: H. C. Sanders, Trustee, H. C. Sanders, Executor, Norma Tanner, Dumas Sanders, Jessie Sanders, Annie Sanders, Allie Sanders. Case concerned the estate of R. W. Luttrell, who died Feb. 24, 1928. H. C. Sanders was the Executor of the will. Plaintiffs were are all related to the deceased. See WT2145 for more. |
West | Range: 77 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 2032 | 98 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1923 | J. A. Hipps, et al.v. Mrs. Kittie Dennie | McNairy | Other |
Additional plaintiffs: C. C. White. Plaintiffs sued Mrs. Dennie because she refused to allow a public road to be built that crossed her land. The road was to be built to connect Lumpkins Mill with an existing public road known as the Selmer and Purdy Road. |
West | Range: 78 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1743 | 70 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1895 | J. W. Robinson & J. R. Hamm v. Mobile & Ohio RR Co. | McNairy | Damages |
The plaintiffs sued the railroad for not taking care of the cattle they were shipping to New Orleans, as the cattle escaped before loading. |
West | Range: 82 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 651 | 123 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1908 | J. O. Sanders v. Mobile & Ohio Railroad Co.& Southern Railway Co. | McNairy | Recovery |
sued for the recovery of the value of certain articles of goods alleged to have been lost in shipment, or failed to be delivered. |
West | Range: 80 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1169 | 27 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1913 | J. J. Abernathy, et al. v. J. J Hardin | McNairy | Property Dispute |
Plaintiffs: J. J. Abernathy, U. A. Wyatt, G. J. Colin, W. C. Farris, and A. M. Gilton- all residents of McNairy County and the township of Acton, Tenn. Dispute over property ownership and improvements, maintenance of a county road near Acton, TN. Includes plat map of town. Decision appealed to the Court of Civil Appeals, Jackson. |
West | Range: 79 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1307 | 197 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1917 | J. R. Gooch v. T. P. McCullar | McNairy | Notes |
The plaintiff executed a note for stock in a fan company, but claimed fraud in the transaction. |
West | Range: 79 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1489 | 68 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1918 | John Vinson v. State | McNairy | Violation of Age of Consent |
John Vinson had a relationship with Beatrice Carrol and fathered her child out of wedlock. She testified she was 18 when the sexual relationship first started; however, Vinson is charged with a violation of the age of consent law. |
West | Range: 79 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1508 | 66 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1923 | John L. Wilson v. Dick Cooper et al. | McNairy | Ejectment |
Additional defendant: George Wynn. The plaintiff is sued for ejectment for the recovery of a tract of land near Purdy, TN. Plaintiff claimed that the defendants owed him rent and that the cotton that they grew either on the 2 acres in question or that it was the property of defendants and was subject to the debts of the defendants for rent. Map on page 377 of transcript. 2 folders. Volume 2 included, but volume 1 is not. |
West | Range: 78 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1735 | 258 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1885 | L. C. H. Prather v. J. T. Jeans | McNairy | Partnership Settlement | West | Range: 83 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 287 | 15 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1894 | L. E. Weeks, et al. v. A. J. Sewell | McNairy | Estate Settlement |
Additional plaintiffs: Mrs. L. E. Weeks widow of B. J. Weeks, dec., Flora Weeks, Otis Weeks, Harriet Weeks,. Harrison Weeks. Additional defendants: H. H. Weeks, admr. Of B. J. Weeks, dec., Lizzie Ellis, Robert Ellis, Charlie Weeks |
West | Range: 82 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 605 | 444 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1903 | Lavinia Smallwood v. Mobile & Ohio Railroad Co. | McNairy | Damages for Wrongful Death |
Plaintiff, widow of W. S. Smallwood, originally sued the railroad for $20,000, charging that on 21 March 1901 one of its cars negligently and recklessly ran over her husband, killing him. Couple had 6 children who are not named in the case. |
West | Range: 81 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 873 | 15 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1878 | M. V. Peoples v. State | McNairy | Carrying an Illegal Weapon | West | Range: 84 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 113 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1892 | Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company v. J. T. Barnhill | McNairy | Debt | West | Range: 83 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 368 | 28 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1930 | Mrs. W. E. McLeod Bramlett v. W. P. Hurley | McNairy | Debt |
Pltf. sued for debt due by liability as purchaser of the cotton crop of Jack Whitaker, grown on her property in 1928. The lien based on a note of Whitaker. Debt is due, wholly unpaid, and less than $250. |
West | Range: 77 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 2086 | 38 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1919 | Mrs. Flora King v. Walker D. Hines | McNairy | Wrongful Death |
Walter D. Hines is described as "Director General of Rail Roads in the United States." Mrs. King is the widow of Dr. J. M. King. She seeks $25,000 damages for the wrongful death of her husband. He was struck and killed by a train on January 4, 1919. |
West | Range: 78 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1751 | 182 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1898 | Oscar Naylor v. State | McNairy | Assault with Intent to Commit Rape |
Case went to the Tennessee Supreme Court. Victim: J. E. "Lizzie" Brown. |
West | Range: 81 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 759 | 10 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1905 | Odus Browder v. State | McNairy | Carrying an Illegal Weapon |
Appeal and supreme court case only. Original case unknown. |
West | Range: 80 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 998 | 21 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1902 | Pearson Ferrell & Company v. Swaim Brothers | McNairy | Debt on Account |
Debt was for $45.25. Debt was incurred when Swaim Brothers purchased Sipes, Sharp & Company. |
West | Range: 81 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 856 | 41 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1916 | R. H. Burton v. W. v. Riggs& Eula Riggs | McNairy | Debt |
Debt was over a number of goods including a desk, a telephone, and a typewriter |
West | Range: 79 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1440 | 31 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1921 | R. P. Melton v. M. L. Robinson | McNairy | Breach of Trust |
In 1920, one J. H. Richardson wanted to procure a residence in said county and consummated a trade between the parties by which Robinson would get the Melton residence and then Richardson could rent it. It was then agreed that Robinson would swap Melton a business property for Melton's residence property and Robinson would pay Melton $250 for the difference. Before signing the deed, Robinson tried to get all three of Melton's properties, when only one was agreed upon. Melton refuses to pay back the $250. |
West | Range: 78 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1643 | 50 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1883 | State v. Tobe Smith | McNairy | Carrying an Illegal Weapon |
Charge is that the defendant carried "a certain pocket and belt Pistol and Revolver, and such as is not carried and commonly used in the U.S. Army," as well as "a certain Army Pistol, he not having the same openly in his hands." |
West | Range: 83 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 234 | 28 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1876 | State v. C. M. Jeanes & his Securities | McNairy | Tax Collection |
Jeanes was Revenue Collector for McNairy County in the early 1870s. His "securities" included N.F. Cherry, B.F. McAlpin, R.G. Stanley, and James T. Dunaway. |
West | Range: 84 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 79 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1881 | State v. Thomas Russell et al. | McNairy | Carrying an Illegal Weapon |
Additional Defendant: E. Wooten. |
West | Range: 84 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 177 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1879 | State v. Isaac Rodgers& Harrison Rodgers | McNairy | Assault with Intent to Commit Rape | West | Range: 83 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 247 | 2 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1884 | State v. Chafin Sipes& Brown Gambel | McNairy | Assault |
Additional parties: Markus T. Sipes |
West | Range: 83 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 264 | 127 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1885 | State v. John Henderson et al | McNairy | Carrying an Illegal Weapon |
It is unclear to whom the "et al" in case name refers |
West | Range: 83 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 291 | 7 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1886 | State v. Camel Pratcher | McNairy | Assault with Intent to Commit Rape | West | Range: 83 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 394 | 62 | Order A Copy |