Butts County - Superior Court - Equity Dockets
Scope and Contents
Equity cases are supplementary to cases tried under statute law but they allow courts to render judgments that are more flexible and more humane than judgments allowed under common or statute law. The bound volumes comprising this series document the civil complaints concerning equity matters filed in the court for the inclusive date span listed. Information presented in these volumes includes: (1) date and term of court; (2) names of litigants; (3) names of attorneys; (4) nature of complaint, and (5) disposition of case. The type of complaints filed were those of divorce, bills for discovery and relief (a bill seeking disclosure of papers or facts within the defendant's possession or knowledge) and bills for injunction.
Dates
- Created: 1831-1888
Creator
- Butts County (Ga.) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted
Extent
0.40 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement Note
Entries are arranged and listed in chronological order by date of court.
- Title
- Butts County - Superior Court - Equity Dockets
- Author
- Georgia Archives
- Description rules
- Local
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Georgia Archives Repository
5800 Jonesboro Rd
Morrow GA 30260 United States