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View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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View Entry | 1932 | A. L. Ginn v. Forest Nursery Company | Warren | Injury and Damages |
Opinion only. Warren County case found in East TN boxes. |
East | Range: 5 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 83 | 7 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1940 | Athens Roller Mills, Inc. v. Mrs. Kittie Reynolds | McMinn | Injury and Damages | East | Range: 6 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 252 | 255 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1949 | Alice Cora Mayes & William L. Mayes v. Walter Clark | Knox | Injury and Damages |
Receipt included. |
East | Range: 6 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 282 | 224 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1890 | Alexander Guy v. Fischer & Burnett Lumber Company | Anderson | Injury and Damages |
The plaintiff sued the defendant company for $2,000 in damages for negligently employing the plaintiff's 12-year-old son, Charles Guy, to use said saw without proper training or consent, resulting in the loss of the child's right arm. |
East | Range: 19 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1826 | 148 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1942 | Adele S. Kennedy et al. v. Rutherford Freight Lines, Inc. | Knox | Injury and Damages |
Truck driven by Defendant struck car in which Plaintiff was riding, causing her to be injured. Exhibits include repair bill, scene map. Add. Plaintiff: Firemen's Insurance Co. of Newark, New Jersey. |
East | Range: 7 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 637 | 343 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1940 | Annie Brookins v. Tennessee Coach Co., Inc. | Greene | Injury and Damages |
Plaintiff was travelling on a bus operated by the defendants when she was injured in a collision. Exhibits include 4 xrays. |
East | Range: 7 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 665 | 600 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1907 | A. A. Green v. Memphis Street Railway Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Damages for $2,000.00 |
West | Range: 81 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 943 | 59 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1907 | Alex Anderson v. Virgil Hunt | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Hunt, a minor, sued Anderson after the latter's wagon accidentally dropped some large slabs of stone on the street which later resulted in injuries. |
West | Range: 80 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1052 | 115 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1907 | Arkansas River Packet Co. & Charles Price v. Amos Westbrook | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Exhibit includes black and white photograph of the Steamboat Delta parked along an embankment. Charles Price was first mate aboard the Steamboat Delta and was accused of assaulting Westbrook while he was unloading a buggy causing the buggy to fall on him. |
West | Range: 80 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1064 | 296 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1913 | Allen Wright v. Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Rail Road Company et al | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Damages for personal injuries and property damage in a train/wagon collision. An attorney addresses Mr. Wright as "Uncle Allen." Oversize photograph of train crossing located in WT Oversize Box 2. |
West | Range: 80 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1125 | 58 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1929 | Annie M. Prescott v. Blount Plow Works & Reese Boulders | Madison | Injury and Damages |
Damages for personal injury for being dragged by a truck. |
West | Range: 80 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1138 | 38 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1937 | A. R. Gillespie& Victor P. Gaughey v. John G. Martin, et al.. | Hamilton | Personal Injuries |
Additional Defendants: Mary Lou Martin Kirkland, Rose Martin Ochs, Katherine M. Dart, and Florence M. Hamrick. The plaintiffs sustained damages from a fire in a hotel owned by the defendants in Chattanooga. The file is contained in two folders. Blueprint and photographs of Central Hotel. |
East | Range: 8 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1007 | 359 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1879 | A. J. Smartt v. North Carolina & St. Louis Rail Road Co. | Coffee | Injury and Damages |
Sues for $5,000 for damages while in the employment of the defendant. |
Middle | Range: 34 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 669 | 57 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1931 | Armour Slover v. Henry Nohsey and Hugh Schwab | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Slover was hit by a truck, owned by Nohsey and Schwab, while crossing Union Street in Memphis on March 8, 1929. |
West | Range: 77 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 2060 | 273 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1917 | Albriten Burgess, by next friend Viola Burgess v. Mrs. Frances E. Mason & H.E. Mason | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Plaintiff alleges the defendants are justly indebted to A. Burgess in the sum of $10,000 as damages for personal injuries inflicted upon the minor by the defendants when they hit the plaintiff on his bicycle in their automobile. |
West | Range: 79 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1513 | 101 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1916 | Annie Cline & husband J. Cline v. J. A. Loudon | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Annie Cline and her husband are sued J. A. Loudon for $5000.00. Annie Cline and her husband resided at 1970 Delmar St, in Memphis, a property belonging to J. A. Loudon, In Dec. 1915 and again in February, 1916 they notified Loudon that the back steps to the house were old and rotten. Loudon failed to repair steps. Annie Cline fell through the second step on 3-28-16, breaking her left arm, dislocating her wrist and fragmenting the bones in her hand, leaving her disabled. |
West | Range: 79 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1521 | 136 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1917 | Ada Lewis v. Memphis Street Railway Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
2 folders. Plaintiff is sued for damages in the sum of $5,000 for her injuries sustained as she was disembarking a train car owned and operated by the defendant and the conductor, without warning, closed the door and started off with the plaintiff's hand caught in the gate of the door. She was pulled along the street with great force, injuring her legs, back, neck, and internal organs. |
West | Range: 79 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 1532 | 355 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1920 | Alice Hamner, by next friend F. Hamner v. The John Gerber Co. | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Plaintiff sued for $10,000 for bodily injury and medical expenses. Plaintiff, 10 years old, alleges that she was hit by an automobile driven by an African American man, an employee of The John Gerber Company. |
West | Range: 79 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1595 | 262 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1920 | A. J. Scott v. Nashville Bridge Company | Davidson | Personal Injuries | Middle | Range: 21 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 142 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1946 | Alma Davis v. Tennessee Coach Co. | McMinn | Injury and Damages |
Resulting from a bus collision. Exhibits include numerous oversized x-rays located in ET OV 1. |
East | Range: 5 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 201 | 236 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1947 | Atlantic Coast Line Co., et al. v. Dock Meek, by next friend | Washington | Injury and Damages |
"Workmen's Compensation." Additional Plaintiff: Ada Foney. Additional Defendants: Louisville and Nashville Railway Co. and Clinchfield Railroad Co. 3 folders. |
East | Range: 5 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 201 | 810 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1942 | Atley Walters, et al. v. Frank Lyle & Lyle Furniture Co. | Knox | Injury and Damages |
Resulting from a car accident. Additional Plaintiff: Next Best Friend, Harding Walters. |
East | Range: 5 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 205 | 303 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1939 | Albert Maxwell v. Henry Davis, et al. | Hamilton | Injury and Damages |
Additional Defendant: H. W. Edwards. Resulting from a car collision. |
East | Range: 6 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 249 | 213 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1940 | A. N. Hawk v. N. E. Snyder | Sullivan | Injury and Damages | East | Range: 6 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 304 | 35 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1942 | Agnes Hammett v. The Vogue Inc., et al | Hamilton | Injury and Damages |
Additional Defendant: O. T. Draewell. |
East | Range: 6 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 440 | 60 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1945 | Andrew Gene Delk v. Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway Company | Hamilton | Injury and Damages |
Exhibits: 5 - 8x10 photos, drawing, hospital statement, doctor statement, bill of lading, sworn statement by Robert Powell, bad order tag from railroad, train record book, train record, blueprint, drawing. |
East | Range: 7 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 514 | 505 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1939 | Annie May Young v. Thomas & Erie J. Storey | Hamilton | Injury and Damages | East | Range: 7 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 611 | 15 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1942 | Alfred Bond v. Brooks Sand & Gravel Co., Inc. | Sullivan | Injury and Damages |
Origin of damages: work injury. Exhibits include b&w photos, floor schematic, time book. |
East | Range: 7 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 619 | 405 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1939 | Addison Jackson v. Southern Railway Co. | Anderson | Injury and Damages |
Plaintiff sues after being forced off the side of a moving train by a stream of hot water directed at him by employees of defendant, injuring and eventually losing his foot in the process. Plaintiff suing b/n/f Cora Jackson. |
East | Range: 7 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 733 | 121 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1908 | A. D. Cate v. Southern Railway Co. | Bradley | Injury and Damages | East | Range: 7 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 747 | 8 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1912 | American Lumber Company v. Clarence J. McDonald | Shelby | Personal Injuries | West | Range: 80 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1088 | 164 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1912 | A. Adcock, next friend of Clain Adcock v. Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company | Gibson | Injury and Damages | West | Range: 80 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1099 | 44 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1914 | Angello Garanelli v. Memphis Macaroni Co. | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
$10,000 in damages for permanent injury to plaintiff's hand while working for defendant. Blueprint glued to page 81. |
West | Range: 80 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1101 | 141 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1888 | Addie Ferguson by next friend v. Mayor & Aldermen of Knoxville | Knox | Injury and Damages |
Plaintiff was a minor, so represented by father, James Ferguson. City had laid water pipe & had not filled in hole. Addie stepped in it while trying to cross Crozier St. (near Depot St.) & broke her arm. |
East | Range: 9 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1069 | 45 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1937 | A. H. Caldwell v. Anna Finger | Knox | Injury and Damages |
Finger sued Caldwell as a result of injuries she sustained while keeping house for him. Stemmed from an argument over personal matters and use of the telephone. |
East | Range: 9 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1105 | 44 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1916 | Ada Rogers v. Memphis Street Railway Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
The plaintiff became ill after she was foced to walk in a heavy rain when the street car changed its route wihtout notice. |
West | Range: 79 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1499 | 95 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1918 | Adolph Hill, by next friend R. S. Christie v. Max Miller | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
Plaintiff is sued for damages in the sum of $10,000 for when he was riding a bicycle and was hit head-on by the defendant in his automobile. The plaintiff claims the defendant was negligent in that he was going in excess of twenty miles per hour, which was unsafe for the particular road. The plaintiff was thrown under the automobile, which was being driven by a Negro man employed by the defendant. The defendant left the plaintiff on the ground without checking on his injuries. |
West | Range: 79 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1513 | 118 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1918 | Annie Corbin v. J. H. Pope& James Pope | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
Annie Corbin is sued for $2000.00. Plaintiff was in the process of boarding a street car when she was struck by an automobile being driven by James Pope. She claims that not only was Pope speeding but he was trying to pass a stopped street car. The vehicle hit her hip and ran over her foot crushing and mangling it. She was confined to bed and in great physical pain. |
West | Range: 79 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1601 | 118 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1920 | Albert Lewis v. E. E. Nesbitt | Shelby | Personal Injuries |
The plaintiff is sued the defendant for $500 for personal injuries sustained as the result of a car accident. |
West | Range: 79 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1603 | 199 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1931 | Annie Church by next friend T. J. Church v. E.C. Offinger et al. | Carter | Personal Injuries |
Additional defendants: Mrs. E.C. Offinger and East TN Limestone Quarries. Plaintiffs sued for $5000 damages for personal injuries. Annie Church worked for the Bemberg Plant and was being carried in passenger car when a large truck belonging to the defendant ran a red light and hit the car, inflicting her with permanent injuries to her head, face, and body. |
East | Range: 9 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1291 | 89 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1919 | A. W. Newsom v. Memphis Street Railway Company | Shelby | Injury and Damages |
While walking on the sidewalk in 1918, an agent of the defendant negligently and recklessly ran one of its cars upon and against the plaintiff with great force and violence, knocking him down and crushing his foot, inflicting permanent and painful injury. Plaintiff sued for $20,000 in damages for that his foot had to be amputated and he was made a cripple for life. |
West | Range: 78 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1664 | 297 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1941 | Bessie Palmer et. al. v. Harve Sams & the Cocke County Board of Education | Cocke | Injury and Damages |
Additional Plaintiffs: Evelyn Palmer by next friend Ed Shaver, Dovie Shaver by next friend Fate Ottinger. Cause of Action: School bus driver had an accident while plaintiffs were passengers. |
East | Range: 5 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 170 | 319 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1947 | Barbara Ann Jones by next friend Uriel Jones v. Hartman Beverage Company Inc. | Knox | Injury and Damages |
Exhibits include an empty Pepsi Cola bottle. |
East | Range: 7 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 729 | 225 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1947 | Blue Ridge Glass Corporation v. James Fleenor | Sullivan | Injury and Damages |
Cause of Action: Worker's Compensation. |
East | Range: 6 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 287 | 81 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1940 | Bertha O. Alexander v. Hamilton National Bank of Chattanooga | Hamilton | Personal Injuries |
Exhibition Materials: one hand-drawn diagram, four photos of marble stairwell. |
East | Range: 6 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 340 | 211 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1948 | Boedna C. Turner v. Hobert Delaney | Hamilton | Injury and Damages |
Plaintiff was struck by an automobile driven by Defendant and injured. |
East | Range: 7 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 495 | 134 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1946 | Boyd Snyder v. D. M. Rose & Company | Knox | Injury and Damages |
Mr. Snyder, brought action against Defendant , as his employer not operating under Workmen's Compensation Act, to recover $50,000 damages for personal injuries sustained when an excavation, being made for a house to be erected, caved in on him. Exhibits: FHA insurance application, estimate cost of house, papers for contractor John Blazer, building permit, hospital bills, mining and manufacturing form, contracts, conveyance contract of Max and Annie Wolf, receipts. See also ET boxes # 456 and 727 |
East | Range: 6 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 454 | 2408 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1938 | Bessie Boon Hackney v. Lloyd J. Wavering et al | Hamilton | Injury and Damages |
Plaintiff sued Defendant after being injured from a fall off a horse. Exhibits include correspondences. Add. Defendant: Walker's Riding School. |
East | Range: 7 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 723 | 104 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1938 | B. A. Whittaker v. Hoover Lines Inc. | Knox | Injury and Damages |
See additional part of case in ET Box 1256. Whittaker sued Hoover for injuries sustained when Hoover drove its freight truck into Whittaker's wagon, damaging wagon, injuring Whittaker. Accident occurred in Greene County when Whittaker driving team & wagon on Natl Hwy 11 (ran from Johnson City to Knoxville), on bridge 2 miles from Greeneville. Exhibits: x-rays (folder-sized x-rays in ET Box 1256; oversized x-rays in ET Oversize Box 17. |
East | Range: 7 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 723 | 431 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1947 | Benton Pritchett v. Fleishel Lumber Co., et al. | Rhea | Injury and Damages |
Workmen's Compensation. Additional Defendant: Elisha Newby. |
East | Range: 5 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 163 | 107 | Order A Copy |