gr00464.xml Wadena County: District Court: An Inventory of Its Civil and Criminal Registers of Actions at the Minnesota Historical Society National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Minnesota Historical Society

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Government Records

Finding aid encoded by Shelby Edwards and Cheri Thies, November 2011. Finding aid written in English OVERVIEW Minnesota Historical Society Minnesota. District Court (Wadena County). Civil and criminal registers of actions. 1881-1954. Materials in English. Registers of actions for civil (1881-1954) and criminal (1889-1947) cases. 4.3 cu. ft. (5 boxes and 2 partial boxes). See Detailed Description for shelf locations. SCOPE AND CONTENTS

Each entry may include the names of the parties in the case, the attorneys representing each party, when the case was opened, the case file number, and a record of each document that was filed by the contesting parties or by the court in the case.

ARRANGEMENT

The records are divided into two sections: civil and criminal, arranged in case file number order.

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minnesota. District Court (Wadena County). Civil and Criminal Registers of Actions. Minnesota Historical Society.

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Accession Information:

Accession number: 2009-29

Processing Information:

Processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with a Basic Project grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).

Catalog ID number: 7440839

CATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics: Civil procedure -- Minnesota -- Wadena County. Criminal procedure -- Minnesota -- Wadena County. DETAILED DESCRIPTION 123.E.14.4F Registers of Civil Action, 1881-1954.

Only Volume A is indexed.

A, Case File Nos. 1-423, October 1881-August 1885. 1 volume. B, Case File Nos. 424-644, August 1885-July 1887. 1 volume.

Volume A includes a record of miscellaneous case files, Nos. 1-25, 1881-1885, on pages 193-197; Volume B, Nos. 26-35, 1881-1884, on pages 2-5. These were for case file transcripts filed with the court by Wadena County justice courts and other counties’ district courts. It is unknown if the Miscellaneous Case Files are still extant.

123.H.17.2F-1 C, Case File Nos. 645-1307, July 1887-November 1895. 1 volume. D, Case File Nos. 1308-2135, November 1895-March 1909. 1 volume. 123.H.17.2F-2 E, Case File Nos. 2136-2775, March 1909-November 1919. 1 volume. F, Case File Nos. 2776-3433, November 1919-February 1924. 1 volume. 123.H.17.3B-1 G, Case File Nos. 3434-4069, February 1924-February 1928. 1 volume. H, Case File Nos. 4070-4706, February 1928-September 1932. 1 volume. 123.H.17.3B-2 I, Case File Nos. 4707-5343, September 1932-June 1937. 1 volume. J, Case File Nos. 5344-5974, June 1937-August 1942. 1 volume. 123.H.17.4F-1 K, Case File Nos. 5975-6605, August 1942-March 1949. 1 volume. L, Case File Nos. 6606-7239, March 1949-September 1954. 1 volume. 123.H.17.4F-2 Register of Criminal Actions B, Case File Nos. 47-770, 1889-1947. 1 volume.

Not indexed.