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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 | 1870 | A. J. Darr v. J. F. Wright | Wilson | Debt Dispute |
Case involves a challenge to a previous judgment rendered without defendant present. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 342 | 27 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | B. G. Hampton et al. v. William G. Massey | Davidson | Debt Dispute |
Additional Plaintiffs: J. T. Pentecost, W. M. Clark, and Jolly Parrish. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 327 | 24 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | B. G. Green v. William H. Wisener& G. W. Thompson | Bedford | Debt Dispute | Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 327 | 16 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1870 | Ben Drake v. James Grooms | Bedford | Debt Dispute |
Debt involves a horse. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 323 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | Benjamin Milam v. Henry Rogers | Dickson | Property Dispute | Middle | Range: 32 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 286 | 12 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1870 | Bank of Tennessee v. Thomas B. Swan | White | Debt Dispute | Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 327 | 16 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1870 | Charles A. Merrill v. Samuel Young et al. | Williamson | Debt Dispute |
Additional Defendants: Nelson Wilson and Rial Alkerson |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 323 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | Caswell C. Lyons, admr.,& Heirs v. Valentine Wyrick, et al. | Union | Land and Title Dispute |
Opinion only. Complex land and title dispute. Lyons took deed of conveyance from Anderson Acuff for a tract of 140 acres. Acuff had obtained judgment against Lyons for unpaid purchase money. Land was sold by sheriff to L.M. Ellis. Deed eventually came to Wyrick. Lyons and Ellis had made verbal agreement on the redemption of the land but Ellis sold to J.L. Mynatt. Plaintiffs charges a vendor's lien was created in favor of Lyons. |
East | Range: 9 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1217 | 10 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | C. C. Mayhue, admr. of G. A. Conn, dec. v. John Taylor | Hamilton | Bond Dispute | East | Range: 7 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 704 | 6 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1870 | G. W. G. Payne v. O. F. Noel | Davidson | Debt Dispute | Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 327 | 6 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1870 | Gipson West et al. v. William West et al. | Wilson | Debt Dispute |
Additional Plaintiffs: Robert West, and Joseph West. Additional Defendant: William Smith. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 327 | 81 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | G. C. & R. L. McBee v. G. M. & W. C. Hazen | Knox | Debt Dispute |
Incomplete Case. |
East | Range: 8 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 814 | 5 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | H. M. Neely v. J. W. Heeter& T. C. Chandoin | Sumner | Debt Dispute | Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 327 | 16 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1870 | Hugh Wylie v. B. B. Barr, admr. H.& S. Barr | Sumner | Debt Dispute | Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 327 | 26 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1870 | H.C. Alexander v. John Denny, exe. of Robert Denney, dec. | Hamilton | Estate Dispute |
Plaintiff and heirs of Robert Denny claim that a document purporting to be the last will and testament of Robert Denny was admitted to probate court without any legal notice to them and that the original will was actually destroyed during the war. The Fitzgerald surname appears throughout the document as heirs to Robert Denny. |
East | Range: 9 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1218 | 74 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | James M. Granberry v. Simon Oatman et al. | Maury | Debt Dispute |
Additional Defendants: Thomas Frierson, and James Fleming. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 327 | 6 | 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 | 1870 | Lewis M. McCartney v. James Wade, et al. | Wilson | Debt Dispute |
Additional Defendants: Armistead Lane, Robert Grigg, Jesse Grigg, and A. Grigg. Case involves the validity of "Confederate money." |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 323 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | Robert Akin v. Hezekiah Terrell et al. | Maury | Debt Dispute |
Additional Defendants: William Dabney and J. D. McLenore. Dispute also includes a tract of land. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 323 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | R. P. Moss, admr. of B. M. Hughes, dec. v. W. O. N. Perkins | Williamson | Debt Dispute | Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 327 | 20 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1870 | Robert Snead v. Wyatt Nichols | Sevier | Debt Dispute |
Includes a certificate of Survey dated 1865. |
East | Range: 5 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 29 | 37 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | Susan Rowlett v. A. G. Henderson et al. | Rutherford | Debt Dispute |
Additional Defendants: Levi Wade and William Henderson. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 327 | 12 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | S. Sickles v. Sam Loventhal | Davidson | Debt Dispute | Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 327 | 19 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1870 | Sherd Pile v. William A. Buster | Fentress | Debt Dispute |
Dispute involves a horse. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 323 | 0 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | W. B. Reaves, et al. v. Catharine Freedle, et al. | Sumner | Property Dispute |
Other defendants: James Freedle; Thomas Bradley. |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 333 | 102 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | William Walker v. Nathaniel Young, et al. | Hickman | Deed Dispute | Middle | Range: 20 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 10 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1870 | William Ward et al.v. Josephine T. Bryan, admr. of William Bryan, dec. | Davidson | Debt Dispute |
Additional Plaintiff: John Ward. Additional Defendants: |
Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 327 | 13 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1870 | William S. Patty v. T. J. Sneed& H. A. Overall | DeKalb | Debt Dispute | Middle | Range: 32 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 323 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1870 | William Galloway v. F. C. Dunnington, admr. of W. J. Jagger, dec. | Maury | Debt Dispute |
Galloway sued for repament of debt from the estate of William Jaggers, dec. Debt due by note, or contract. |
Middle | Range: 33 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 526 | 36 | Order A Copy |