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View Entry | Year | Case Name | County | Cause/Crime | Case Description | Division | Location | # Pages | Order |
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View Entry | 1894 | Arlington Insurance Company & Citizens Insurance Company v. M. M. Towle | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Plaintiff claims the condition and use of the property insured is in violation of the warranty policy and refused to pay the policy. |
West | Range: 82 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 586 | 124 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1899 | A. T. McLendon v. The Sovereign Camp of the Woodmen of the World,& the Woodmen of the World | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Exhibits include insurance policy information. |
West | Range: 81 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 792 | 63 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1902 | Annie Goodwin Steele v. Endowment Rank Knights of Pythias | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Plaintiff claimed that defendant owed her $4000 on a "certificate of benefits" after the death of her husband, J. K. Steele. |
West | Range: 81 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 828 | 217 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1890 | Arlington Insurance Co. v. M. H. Caldwell | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies | West | Range: 82 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 510 | 104 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1932 | Bruce York v. Allemania Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Plaintiff sued to recover $1,875 from non-payment of insurance claim by dfnt., including extra costs and interest. Exhibits: OV insurance policies, insured parcel receipt, etc. in WT OV 8. In multiple folders. |
West | Range: 77 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 2117 | 202 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1915 | Blas Turk v. Grand Fraternity | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
The plaintiff sued the defendant, a life insurance company, for $3,000 owed to the plaintiff on a certain policy of insurance. |
West | Range: 79 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1410 | 20 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1890 | Citizens Insurance Company v. E. M. Ayers | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Case concerns a $100,000 insurance policy on a gin house. Defendant is E. M. Ayers for the use of D. J. Porter and G. W. McRae, partners as Porter and MaCrae [?]. |
West | Range: 82 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 550 | 89 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1929 | Connis Lynn v. The National Life & Accident Insurance Company of Tennessee | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Connie Lynn sued to collect life insurance proceeds after the death of Lottie V. Lynn, wife of plaintiff. Lottie died September 24, 1928 and plaintiff claimed the defendant would not pay the benefit amount of $553.00. |
West | Range: 77 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 2007 | 159 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1928 | Cora Distretti v. The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Cora Distretti's husband Louis died on December 6, 1926. They had a life insurance policy in place with the defendant but the defendant refused to pay the whole amount of the policy after his death. Plaintiff sued for $4000, the value stated of the policy. Louis had been shot by two "bandits" that had robbed a store he owned and died from the wounds. Exhibits that are supposed to be attached to pages 63 and 64 are missing. |
West | Range: 77 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1988 | 189 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1916 | D. C. Paterson v. National Life Accident Insurance Company | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Plaintiff claims the defendant is indebted to him for $63 plus interest for a claim he made after being injured on the job, being struck in the testicles. The defendant responded by sending a representative to investigate the claim, and stated his belief that the injury actually came from a venereal disease, which was not covered under his policy. |
West | Range: 79 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1466 | 83 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1906 | Dottie Clark Root et al.v. Railway Officials & Employees' Accident Association | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Additional Plaintiffs: Carrie May Wynne, Katie Ilma & Zettie Clark & Charles Clark, Jr. Plaintiffs children of Charles E. Clark, passenger conductor on I. C. Railroad. Suit to collect on $5000 life insurance policy taken out by Clark 21 Jan. 1899 & payable to his children. Clark accidentally shot to death by Mark Shanley at Montgomery Park on 8 April 1899; family did not know of insurance policy. Company refuses to pay on grounds that it did not receive notification of his death in stipulated time. |
West | Range: 81 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 982 | 204 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1888 | Emma Wright et al. v. Hernando Insurance Co. | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Additional Plaintiff: G. W. Wright. The plaintiffs' home, insured by the defendant, was destroyed by fire. |
West | Range: 83 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 420 | 13 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1890 | E. H. Coats & Co. v. Merchants Cotton Press & Storage Co. | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
The first 263 pages of this case are missing. The question was over the ownership of cotton lost in a fire. |
West | Range: 82 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 552 | 235 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1915 | Elizabeth H. Neill v. The Metropolitan Casualty Insurance Company of New York | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Neill sued for $2000, claiming the insurance company owed her the money as the beneficiary on the policy after the death of her husband, W. G. Neill, Jr. Includes printed copy of "Statement of the Case, Assignments of Error, Brief and Argument on behalf of Plaintiff in Error". Also includes a large folded cloth. |
West | Range: 79 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1404 | 78 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1923 | E. B. Bennett v. Cloverleaf Life & Casualty Co. | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Additional Defendant: W. E. Dunn, General agent. Plea of debt due by sick benefits amounting to $210.00 at $20.00 per week from 9/12/1922 to 12/1/1922 as provided in Policy Contract b-829336. Bennet won a judgment in Circuit Court- Cloverleaf Life and Casualty is appealing. Cloverleaf Life Insurance Policy for E. B. Bennett, a preliminary notice of illness w/ physician's statement., letters from Cloverleaf |
West | Range: 78 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1785 | 57 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1900 | Endowment Rank Knights of Pythias v. Mrs. Katie F. Allen | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Damages of $5,000 for refusing to pay the $3,000 benefit. |
West | Range: 81 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 835 | 195 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1914 | General Accident, Fire& Life Assurance Corporation v. William Peoples admr. of Pinkey Peopels, dec. | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies | West | Range: 79 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1318 | 76 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1879 | John A. Kirby v. The Phoenix Insurance Company of Memphis | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies | West | Range: 84 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 133 | 0 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1922 | Josephine Willis v. National Order of Wise Men & Women of the World | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Willis sued claiming she was owed payment from a life insurance policy for Janie Smothers. Amount sued for was $250.00. |
West | Range: 78 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1706 | 31 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1875 | James R. Vann v. Imperial Fire Insurance Company of Loudon | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies | West | Range: 83 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 205 | 99 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1916 | Life & Casualty Insurance Company v. Tankie King | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
This is only the opinion in the case. Related case documents may be found in WT box 1122. "Tankie King, is a colored woman, the widow of one Walter King and the beneficiary named in policy No. 552455 in the Life & Casualty Insurance Co. of Tennessee upon the life of Walter King." "The Company upon declining payment tendered back the premiums that had been paid. This tender was refused and suit instituted." |
West | Range: 79 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1488 | 9 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1927 | Lula Hale v. Universal Life Insurance Company | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Plaintiff sued the defendant for $550 for an insurance claim for Joe Harris, decd. The deceased died after an appendix operation and plaintiff was beneficiary of the life insurance policy. Exhibits: insurance policy, death certificate. |
West | Range: 77 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1910 | 99 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1915 | Mattie Fernandis v. Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Fernandis sued for debt under a contract of insurance, claiming defendant did not pay her the benefit owed upon the death of her husband, Ben Fernandis, who died in 1912. Amount sued for was $350 plus interest. Housed in 2 folders. |
West | Range: 79 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1397 | 470 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1920 | Maggie S. McCain & V. H. McCain v. Security Mutual Life Ins. Co. | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Pltfs. had a life ins. policy on their son, Vannoy F. McCain. They kept the policy payments current, and it was in effect on the date of his death. McCain fell in battle Oct. 16, 1918, during WWI. Ex. mat: telegram, ins. policy, notification of military enrollment. Oversize insurance policy for plaintiff in WT OV 7. |
West | Range: 77 Section: H Shelf: Box Number: 2099 | 303 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1926 | Metropolitan Life Insurance Company v. Mrs. Tommie L. Johnson | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
plaintiff in error case; Johnson seeking $2000 from insurance agency; seeking additional $1000 claiming Osburn Johnson, dec., killed from "external, violent and accidental" means; ___ Loving mistook Johnson for a burglar and shot and killed him Ex 1: copy of insurance policy #3570018 |
West | Range: 77 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1921 | 118 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1925 | Mrs. Annie C. Greer v. The Independent Life Insurance Co. | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Mrs. Greer sued for payment on a life insurance policy she had put in place on her husband, Homer H. Greer. Homer Greer died on June 9, 1925. Value of policy was $274.00. |
West | Range: 78 Section: J Shelf: Box Number: 1859 | 115 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1914 | National Life Insurance Company v. James N. Hall | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
The defendant was injured on a street car and sought triple indemnity from the plaintiff. |
West | Range: 79 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 1320 | 42 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1917 | N. W. Tuggle v. Home Insurance Co. | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies | West | Range: 79 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 1482 | 383 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1914 | Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co. v. William Friedman | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Breach of insurance |
West | Range: 79 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 1404 | 61 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1915 | Supreme Lodge Knights& Ladies of Honor v. Elizabeth H. Neill | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
The plaintiff was the widow of W. C. Neill, Jr., dec., who had a life insurance policy with the defendant. |
West | Range: 79 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1444 | 204 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1926 | Supreme Circle of Friends of the World v. Felix Kennedy | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Felix Kennedy, a member in good standing with Supreme Circle of Friends of the World, was suing the company to recover on a health policy. The amount Kennedy was suing for $5.00 a week for 16 weeks, or $80, as he was sick during this time period and, thus, disabled and covered under his health insurance plan. |
West | Range: 77 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 1923 | 55 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1924 | Sadie Bowers v. Life & Casualty Ins. Co. | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Bowers sued for the life insurance payment due to her after the passing of Mattie Hester, grandmother of Bowers. |
West | Range: 78 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 1737 | 74 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1890 | Sellers Hoffman v. Germania Insurance Company | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies | West | Range: 82 Section: B Shelf: Box Number: 508 | 60 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1895 | Travellers Insurance Co. v. Walter R. Jones for use of R. J. Jones. Jr. | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
The suit was based on a claim filed by W.R. Jones to Travellers for loss of time at work resulting from injuries. |
West | Range: 82 Section: F Shelf: Box Number: 631 | 48 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1912 | The Grand Fraternity v. Edward Turk | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Plaintiff claims his policy was rescinded without cause. |
West | Range: 81 Section: E Shelf: Box Number: 866 | 95 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1916 | Tankie King v. Life & Casualty Insurance Company | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Tankie King sued claiming benefits were owed for weekly sick benefits as well as a death benefit for her deceased husband Walter King under the provisions of an insurance policy owned by plaintiff. Related case documents may be found in WT box 1488. |
West | Range: 80 Section: D Shelf: Box Number: 1122 | 213 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1897 | Union Casualty & Surety Co. v. Nancy Harrell | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Bab Harrell, deceased, held insurance policy for $1,600.00 against death or injury arising from external, violent and accidental means. Harrell was shot and killed by Herbert McNeal. |
West | Range: 82 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 530 | 151 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1883 | William Johnson & wife Sue W. Johnson v. Home Insurance & Trust Company | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Regards house destroyed by fire insured by the defendant. |
West | Range: 83 Section: A Shelf: Box Number: 215 | 36 | Order A Copy |
View Entry | 1896 | W. C. Guynn v. Memphis Furniture Manufacturing Co. | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies | West | Range: 82 Section: C Shelf: Box Number: 532 | 37 | Order A Copy | |
View Entry | 1895 | W. H. Dale & Company v. Continental Insurance Company | Shelby | Insurance Claims and Policies |
Firm of W. H. Dale & Co.: W. H.; D. M.; & John C. Dale. |
West | Range: 82 Section: G Shelf: Box Number: 636 | 108 | Order A Copy |