Summary Information

Title: Wisconsin. Justice of the Peace (Kenosha): Justice Dockets
Inclusive Dates: 1842-1919

Creator:

• Wisconsin. Justice of the Peace (Kenosha)

Call Number: Kenosha Series 44

Quantity: 6.2 c.f. (37 volumes in 15 archives boxes and 1 separate volume)

Repository:

Housed at the Archives & Area Research Center, Library/Learning Center, University of Wisconsin-Parkside; 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-Parkside Library / Parkside Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Record of civil and criminal actions before justices of the peace. Information may include summary of complaint, defendant's plea, justice's decision, and record of files, costs and jail sentences. Cases include violations of city ordinances, petty larceny, and assault and battery. Volume 1 has newspaper clippings pasted over the first few pages; volume 3 has Justice Ames' reaction to the outbreak of the Civil War written on the back cover; volume 30 consists of ordinance violation cases heard by Justice John Slater, 1900-1901 and Slater's record as a County Court Commissioner, 1902-1919.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-keno0044

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