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Tennessee Supreme Court Cases
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| View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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| 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 | 1832 | Drury Scruggs& John Graham v. Joshua Reams | Williamson | Debt Dispute | Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 192 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1832 | Daniel Meadows v. Wood M. Burge& Elijah D. Roach | Debt Dispute | Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 192 | 4 | Order A Copy | ||
| View Entry | 1832 | John Hammons, et al. v. Hopkins & Lane | Warren | Land, Contract Dispute |
Other plaintiffs: Words[illeg.] Hammons, Nancy Hammons, Elizabeth Hammons, Leroy Hammons, Jr., Leroy Hammons, Sr. Case mentions mortgage taken out on 2 "negroes." |
Middle | Range: 34 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: Oversize 1 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1832 | James Gant v. Matthew Rhea et al. | Maury | Estate Dispute |
Additional defendants: Thomas Porter and P. W. Porter |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 196 | 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 | 1832 | James Rodgers v. James Ramsey et al | Knox | Land and Title Dispute |
Add. Defendants: William B. A. Ramsey, Eliza Ramsey Scott, James Scott, John Ramsey, Francis A. Ramsey, David Parker. |
East | Range: 7 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 729 | 59 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1832 | Montgomery Bell v. Joseph Johnson & A. W. Hicks | Davidson | Debt Dispute |
Montgomery Bell was the famous Middle Tennessee iron entrepreneur. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 196 | 0 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1832 | Peyton Fletcher& wife v. William Seal | Robertson | Debt Dispute |
Amount of debt, $365.50. |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 372 | 7 | Order A Copy |
| View Entry | 1832 | William H. Wells v. Thomas Wilson | Williamson | Debt Dispute | Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 192 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1832 | Wyatt W. Bailey v. Lewis Hazard | Smith | Debt Dispute | Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 192 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1832 | William Fontaine v. Isaac Garner | Maury | Debt Dispute | Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 192 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1832 | Wiley Belsher v. Allen Belsher | Marion | Estate Dispute | Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 197 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
| View Entry | 1832 | William M. Downs v. John H. Petty | Stewart | Rent Dispute | Middle | Range: 32 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 192 | 0 | Order A Copy |