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Court records -- Georgia

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Avary and Stephens family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1028
Scope and Content The papers consist of articles, advertisements, books, datebooks, legal documents, professional records, and personal correspondence of the Avary and Stephens families. There are articles from the Atlanta Journal Constitution and various magazines throughout the 1920's covering topics such as movie costumes, filet crochet, floor plans, and women's sports. Advertisements include a circular for Thomas Edison's phonograph acquired from the 1904 Louisiana...
Dates: 1884-1966, undated

DuBose Egleston Supreme Court of Georgia proceedings

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS466f
Scope and Content

This collection contains the proceedings of a case tried in the Supreme Court of Georgia with DuBose Egleston as the plaintiff and Trust Company of Georgia as defendant.

Dates: 1916

Gatins Family Papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1005
Scope and Content This collection contains correspondence, diaries, obituaries, newspaper clippings, financial records, and official United States government documents pertaining to Gatins family members. Included among the latter are files from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), court records, passport application files, and INS records. The collection also contains birth, baptism, marriage, school and death records for various family members. Also included is secondary research on significant...
Dates: 1848-2010, undated, bulk 1999-2008; Majority of material found within 1999 - 2008

Georgia State Supreme Court receipt

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS584f
Scope and Content

This collection contains one receipt from the Georgia State Supreme Court dated 1885.

Dates: 1885

Horace T. Ward papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1264
Scope and Contents This collection contains the professional and personal papers of the Honorable Horace Taliaferro Ward. Records include articles and newspaper clippings, awards, court case documents, and event programs. Also included are speeches and publications from organizations of which Ward was a member such as the National Bar Association. Additionally, there is correspondence with Ward's mother, Minnie Harrison, and records from Ward's wife, Ruth LeFlore Ward. Of particular interest is correspondence...
Dates: 1939-2016, undated

Series VI: Milton County, 1858-1931, undated

 Series
Scope and Contents This series contains financial and court records from Milton County before it merged with Fulton County in 1931. Records document the Inferior Court, Clerk of Superior, Treasurer, and Office of Tax Collector. Material includes financial books of return; court proceeding minutes; treasurer books; and ledgers of vouchers, receipts, taxes, receipts, and checks. Of particular note are penitentiary and convict records. The "whipping record" in this collection contains language that some might...
Dates: 1858-1931, undated

Wier G. Boyd papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS37f
Scope and Content This collection mainly consists of legal interrogatories used in Georgia Superior Courts from 1859-1866. One of the interrogatories, dated March 8, 1852, concerns Shands and Co., a partnership represented by Wier Boyd, which filed suit against Andrew Howell and Andrew Mullinax to recover damages for gold stolen from a mine. The suit was initially brought to court in Greenwood Township, El Dorado County, California, and later in Lumpkin County, Georgia, and was tried three times before a...
Dates: 1852-1886