Googling an ancestor leads to Black Sheep Sunday

In "Googling" an ancestor I found Stock Troubles for Jesse Hiter Crouch, b. Oct 1808, son of Jesse Crouch and Mary Nance:

A lawsuit was brought by the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad Co. in 1853 against Jesse H. Crouch.  Railroad officials claimed that Crouch continued to owe money on capitol stock purchased in 1849 through Brookins Campbell. The deposition of Samuel B. Cunningham notes that the original records of the stock purchase were destroyed in a fire at the home of Campbell, who, by the time of the trial, had passed away. An appeal bond from 1855 shows that Crouch has been ordered to pay the railroad $850.

The East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad Records, 1852-1871, document the company which developed the railroad connection between Knoxville and Virginia. Eight of the 16 items, found in Series I, deal with a lawsuit brought about by the railroad in 1853 against Jesse H. Crouch of Washington County, TN.

Series I: Records in the case of the East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad vs. Jesse Crouch, 1853-1856

Folder   1         Item   1        
Subpoena to Samuel Cunningham to appear in circuit court in Washington County, TN, 1853 June 1

Folder   1         Item   2        
Subpoena to William G. Gammon, Treasurer of the Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, to appear in circuit court in Washington County, TN, 1853 June 1

Folder   1         Item   3        
Subpoena to Brookins Campbell, agent of the railroad, to appear in circuit court in Washington County, TN, 1853 September 23

Folder   1         Item   4        
Subpoena to John B. Hamilton, Sheriff of Sullivan County, TN, to appear in circuit court in Washington County, TN, 1854 October 22

Folder   1         Item   5        
Deposition of Samuel Cunningham, President of the Tennessee and Virginia Railroad, in Washington County, TN, 1855 January 9

Folder   1         Item   6        
Subpoena to "Dr. Broyles on the Chucky" to appear in circuit court in Washington County, TN, 1855 February 14

Folder   1         Item   7        
Appeal Bond of Jesse Crouch, stating that Crouch agrees to pay the railroad $850, in Washington County, 1855 October 26

Folder   1         Item   8        
Subpoena to Jesse Crouch to appear in circuit court in Washington County, TN, 1856 June 19

Source: East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad Records, 1852-1871; MS-2211;
University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN