The following table contains all post offices known to exist in present-day Grainger, Claiborne, and Union counties through 1971. Grainger County’s list contains 90, some appearing more than once under similar names. Claiborne County’s list contains 104, and Union County’s … Continue reading →
County seat, Rutledge, having 126 inhabitants. Other towns are, Tate Springs and Mineral Hill Springs, which are both noted summer resorts. Navigable streams are the Holston and Clinch rivers, which afford water for flat boats. Besides these rivers there are … Continue reading →
At Knoxville: September Term, 1858 Constitutional Law. Town charters granted by the County Court. Const., art. 11, §7. Acts of 1849, ch. 17, and 1856, ch. 254. The act of 1849, ch. 17, authorizing the County Courts, upon certain conditions, … Continue reading →
At Knoxville Evidence. Plat annexed. Marked boundary will control. A plat annexed to a partition, or grant, is competent evidence to be looked to in ascertaining the true boundary of the land set apart: but the party is entitled to … Continue reading →
At Knoxville: September Term, 1858 Criminal Law. Continuance. Act of 1827, ch. 30, §2. The act of 1827, ch. 30, authorizing a continuance at the first term upon the affidavit of the prisoner, that he cannot go safely to trial … Continue reading →
At Knoxville Seduction. Evidence. The father’s claim for damages for the seduction of his daughter, and the allowance made under the bastardy laws to the daughter for the support of the bastard child, are separate and distinct things. The one … Continue reading →
R. B. Bundren is called variations of rhyming names — “Blueford,” “Booth,” “Bluff,” “Bluth,” and Bruce” — by diverse sources. Most people living today (1997) who knew, or knew of, R. B. Bundren, describe him as a “mean man, one … Continue reading →
Most of the general law on taxation can be found in title 67 of Tennessee Code Annotated. The chief revenue source for county government is the ad valorem tax on real and personal property. The statutes dealing with the county … Continue reading →
The office of sheriff is one of the county offices established by article VII, section 1 of the Constitution of Tennessee, and it is regulated by the general statutes found in title 8, chapter 8 of Tennessee Code Annotated. The … Continue reading →
Some counties in Tennessee have made various activities illegal within their boundaries by the enactment of private legislation. Some of these were billiard playing, operating dance halls, shooting fireworks, and things of a similar nature. The act briefly summarized below … Continue reading →
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