Witt owned farm in Ocoee District & entered into agreement with Grigsby for Grigsby to live on farm & maintain it for Witt's benefit until General Assembly passed law allowing occupant preference, at which point Grigsby should sell the occupant right & split the proceeds with Witt. Grigsby did just that, except he failed to pay Witt his half of the proceeds. Parties also had agreement for Witt to buy another Ocoee District tract & Grigsby would do the same with it, yet Grigsby failed to do so.

Add. defendants: George Gregory, Robert Birchfield, Allen Butler, john B. Hammer, James Harp, Excr of Alexander Harp (dec.), Casper Branner, John Lawrence, David Helf, James Newman, and others listed in file. Plaintiff is the heir of James C. Jones. Suing for damages totaling $4,000.

Jonathan Hooker was the son of Ann. She had given up her life estate which included a slave named Tom to her son for a $50.00 payment per year to support her. He was to pay this yearly for her life but failed to do so.

Additional defendants: A. Dean and J.W. Arcley. In original suit of W.W. Lillard v. Henry Sheets, Lillard obtained judgment of $12.54 against Sheets. McDaniel [alt. McDonald] sued Dean, as constable of the previous case, and defendants, his sureties, for broken covenant and failing to return execution to plaintiff's damage $100. Justice ruled in plaintiff's favor. Defendants appealed.

Additional Defendants: C. H. Nicholson, John A. Hagan, R. H. Ross, James Y. Lucas, H. C. Angel. The covenant mentioned was to collect and pay over all the money charged by him as Constable.

Plaintiffs: William Roberts, John Rice, David Johnson, John Guthrie.

Plaintiff claimed defendant owed him $400 for labor and work performed. Plaintiff was a skilled stone worker who supplied the stone foundation and lintels for the defendants brick house completed 1844.

Additional defendants: John B. Murphy

Plaintiff entered plea of Covenant Broken to his damages, in the amount of $1000. In 1836, defendants entered into a covenant with then Gov., Newton Cannon, and his successors in the amount of $500. Wiley was clerk of Roan Co. The obligation was to be void if Wiley performed in his office, to collect and pay over taxes imposed on suits in the County Court.

Plaintiffs: S. Hyde, Robert A. Clark. Plaintiffs are partners in trade. Townsend was a merchant as well who made a deal for a large amount of goods from the plaintiffs and the deal didn't go through after the plaintiffs acquired all of the goods.

John Wood executed to William Wood 2 separate covenants that he would pay a certain sum (first one was 400.99; second one was $93.50). William assigned the covenants to Plaintiff. Dispute is over Def's failure to pay the debts & his claims of setoff. Lots of testimony about the various transactions involved in the dispute. Ebenezer Wood also mentioned; he was son of John Wood & he lived with his father.

sued for $1,000 in damages for the failure to come through with an agreement for land.

Harris for use of White, admr. Of Franklin H. Morgan, dec. sued Williams & Craig, exe. Of Samuel A. White, dec. as well as John Williams, Joseph A. Mabry, Thomas C. Lyon as securities. Samuel White & securities promised to pay Gov Andrew Johnson $10,000 as long as White kept records faithfully as Chancery court clerk in Knoxville. White charged with embezzling sum due Franklin Morgan estate. Isham G. Harris was governor of TN between Johnson's 2 terms as governor

Younglove sued Ruohs for $20,000 for breach of contract over sale of 24.5 acres of land in Hamilton County. Ruohs was a Swiss immigrant & was Chattanooga's first resident undertaker. He later expanded into the dry goods and grocery business, banking, and real estate.

Additional plaintiffs: Mary Reed, wife of James Reed.

Defendant McCallan is also spelled McCallin, McCallon.