Butts County - Justice of Peace Court - Civil Dockets
Scope and Contents
The bound volumes comprising this series document the civil complaints filed in this court for the inclusive date span listed. Information in them includes: (1) names of plaintiffs and defendants; (2) type of case included; (3) date of issue of summons; (4) case number; (5) date and term of court; (6) disposition of case or judgment rendered; (7) names of attorneys involved (usually not given), and (8) number of the Georgia Militia District in which the court was located. Most of these cases involved actions concerning accounts, promissory notes, mortgage foreclosures and other property matters.
Dates
- Created: 1842-1940
Creator
- Butts County (Ga.) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted
Extent
4.90 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement Note
Entries are arranged and listed in chronological order by date and term of court and thereunder by case number. A few of the volumes have an index in which the plaintiffs are listed in alphabetical order by the initial letter of their surname. The volumes are listed in chronological order.
- Title
- Butts County - Justice of Peace Court - Civil 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