Scope and Contents From the File: Arrangement: Chronological by court term, then numerical by case number. Trial dockets provide daily summaries of civil proceedings. Information includes case number, names of plaintiff and defendant, name of attorney, type of action, date of trial, and brief notes on proceedings. The value of this series is in the comment, some of which aptly summarize a day's legal activities. However, others may consist of one word ("judgment", "dismissed", etc.). In volume 11A many cases went...

Scope and Contents From the File: Arrangement: Alphabetical by surname of defendant. Trial dockets provide daily summaries of criminal proceedings. Information includes case number, name of defendant, nature of criminal charge, date of trial, and brief notes, on trial proceedings. The value of this series is in the comments, though there are many cases for which no entries were made. Because cases were recorded for a given court term, a case may reappear in a volume or volumes. See also criminal case files and...

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Daily record of all records, such as motions, orders, inventories, decrees, petitions, etc., filed in Probate Court. Volumes are indexed.

The 1868 1889 volume contains proceedings of probate and justice courts of Carter/Sweetwater Counties, where the probate judge also served as ex officio justice of the peace. Volume contains a will (Frank Zerremur(?), 1869, p. 21), and insanity cases (George Cherry, 1889, p. 222 223; Caroline Petersen, 1889, p. 224 225).