Tennessee Supreme Court Cases

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View Entry Year Case Name County Cause/Crime Case Description Division Location # Pages Order
View Entry 1871 Charles O. Whitney v. John C. Gillespie Hamilton Debt Dispute

Gillespie got judgment against Whitney on 2 pieces of negotiable paper, but Whitney claims judgments are void as they did not comply w/demand & notice rules governing negotiable paper.

 East Range: 9 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1241 21 Order A Copy
View Entry 1871 Richard Brooks & Son v. D. V. McCorkle et al Hamilton Debt Dispute

Debt dispute over $350 note for which pla. served as surety.

 East Range: 9 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1241 17 Order A Copy
View Entry 1871 Thomas Phipps v. Roswell H. Kroft, et al. Hamilton Debt Dispute

Other defendants: Stephen Hyatt; R. W. House; Leander W. Townsend; Azariah Carpenter; Dardin Smith; E. B. Stoddard; Caleb Framburger; S. Crane. Phipps & Kroft dissolved their business partnership in Dec. 1860. Kroft agreed to take over assets & debts of business from Phipps. Kroft did not pay all of firm's debts & judgments had been issued against Phipps to settle those debts. Phipps claimed to be no longer responsible for them.

 East Range: 5 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 28 133 Order A Copy
View Entry 1871 William A. Moore & Edward W. Marsh dba Moore & Marsh v. David N. Bell Hamilton Debt Dispute

Bell sued Moore & Marsh in Chancery over debt firm owed Bell, attaching firm's property (land w/store house at 4th & Market Sts, Chattanooga) to satisfy debt; property sold to James R. Hood. Moore & Marsh now sued Bell in Circuit Court over same matter. Dispute re use of Confederate notes to pay debt at time when "no man was safe in saying or doing anything that would be deemed unfriendly or disloyal to the Confederate states."

 East Range: 9 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 1241 42 Order A Copy