Title: Wisconsin. Circuit Court (Portage County): Civil Case Files
Inclusive Dates: 1844-1926

Creator:

• Wisconsin. Circuit Court (Portage County)

Call Number: Portage Series 14

Quantity: 27.0 c.f. (27 record center cartons)

Repository:

Housed at the Nelis R. Kampenga University Archives & Area Research Center, Learning Resources Center, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Stevens Point Library / Stevens Point Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Case files containing all the papers pertaining to each case that came before the Circuit Court.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-port0014

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By case number.

Indexed in “Defendant Indexes” (Portage Micro Series 1).

Box   1	Case numbers 01-096
Box   2	097-0190
Box   3	Case numbers 0191-0299 Note: Of special interest in this group is case number 0231, Antoine Arpin, Admin. vs. Thomas Hinton (1855) relating to logging operations along the Wisconsin in Marathon County. Also in this box is an action against the steamship Northerner, which plied the Wisconsin River.
Box   4	Case numbers 0300-0425
Box   5	Case numbers 0426-0564 Note: Of special interest in this group is case number 0552, Bean vs. Ferris (1852) relating to the ownership of logs between Big Bull and Stevens Point, log marks, and rafting.
Box   6	Case numbers 0565-0719 Note: Of special interest in this group is case number 0579, Burr vs. Patterson (1887) containing a typewritten inventory of a grocery store; and case number 0701, Barnard vs. Hibbard (1854) containing an inventory of a general store.
Box   7	Case numbers 0720-0864 Note: Of special interest in this group is case number 0725, Bancroft we Mclndoe et al. (1851) relating to a contract for rafting lumber to St. Louis.
Box   8	Case numbers 0865-01019
Box   9	Case numbers 01020-01149
Box   10	Case numbers 01150-01309 Note: Of special interest in this group is case number 01152, DuBay vs. Pancoast & Cate (1852) relating to a breach on contract on the lease of the DuBay mill; case number 01154, DuBay vs. Cotterill (1845) relating to a breach of contract to furnish logging supplies; and case number 01192, Dawson vs. Hurd (1846), an action in replevin for 5,000 feet (2 rapids pieces) of lumber.
Box   11	Case numbers 01310-01479 Note: Of special interest in this group is case number 01315, Farris vs. Dafoe (1846), an action brought to recover a judgment before the defendant might abscond to California or Oregon with the Mormons.
Box   12	Case numbers 01480-01633
Box   13	Case numbers 01634-01809
Box   14	Case numbers 01810-01999
Box   15	Case numbers 02000-02175
Box   16	Case numbers 02176-02327
Box   17	Case numbers 02328-02528
Box   18	Case numbers 02529-02684
Box   19	Case numbers 02685-02859
Box   20	Case numbers 02860-02995
Box   21	Case numbers 02996-03130
Box   22	Case numbers 03131-03257
Box   23	Case numbers 03258-03431