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Case files dealing primarily with divorce plus a few paternity case files. Legal papers include complaints, summonses, affidavits, court orders, and decrees. In 1944 the county court and circuit court began filing their family cases together, separately from other civil case files. Five digit case numbers are from the circuit court and the others are from the county court. Case numbers 1-6531, 75FM2-76FM444, and 16926-25555.

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Circuit Court case files dealing with civil and criminal actions. Legal papers include complaints, summonses, affidavits, petitions, court orders, and decrees.

Summary Printed Wisconsin Supreme Court cases and legal briefs prepared by the Eau Claire, Wisconsin, law firm of Wickham and Farr, and by opposing attorneys. The cases span the dates of James Wickham's law practice from 1888 until 1909, when he was appointed circuit court judge for Wisconsin's newly-created 19th circuit. In 1889 Wickham was joined in practice by Frank R. Farr. Wickham and Farr undertook cases from all of the counties surrounding Eau Claire. The cases represented in the collection...

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Circuit Court case files dealing with actions affecting the family, containing many divorce cases. Legal papers include complaints, summonses, affidavits, court orders, and decrees.

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Records of naturalization proceedings in the Circuit Court of Buffalo County. Records include indexes to Petitions (1858-1950) and Citizenship (1858-1943), Declarations of Intention (1853-1950), Petitions and Naturalization Records (1858-1950), and Certificate Stub Books (1907-1929), Oaths of Allegiance (1941), and Petitions Granted and Denied (1930-1950).

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Circuit Court divorce case files, #5941-9964. Legal papers include complaints, summonses, affidavits, court orders, testimony, and decrees. Included is in-depth information on genealogy, family history, domestic violence, household and farm economy, division of labor, sexuality, gender roles, expectations of marriage, courtship, kinship networks, community surveillance and networks, and the relationships among women.

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Records of naturalization proceedings in the Circuit Court of Chippewa County. Records include a card index and volume indexes to naturalizations (1854-1963); Declarations of Intention (1850-1959); Petitions (1870-1963); Naturalization Certificates (1871-1923); Depositions (1916, circa 1932-1942); Petitions Granted and Denied (1929-1963); and Applications to Take Oath of Allegiance (1938-1958).

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Files of a district court judge (1874-1947) who served in the 17th Circuit at Neillsville, Wisconsin, from 1921-1947. Included are personal, professional, and official correspondence and district court case files containing legal briefs, decisions, court orders and additional correspondence. Most prominent among the cases are six concerning drainage districts.

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Records of naturalization proceedings in the Circuit Court of Clark County, Wisconsin. Records include indexes to Petitions (1860-1903 and 1860-1955) and Declarations (1857-1906); Declarations of Intention (1892-1951); Petitions (1895-1954); Certificate Stub Books (1907-1927); Repatriations (1940-1949); and an Order Book (1929-1954).

Summary Handwritten and printed calendars listing cases scheduled. The cases are grouped in civil and criminal categories and, for some years, according to type of judicial action required, e.g. finding of fact by jury or finding of law. Information given includes title of case, names of attorneys, nature of the alleged crime in criminal cases, and a brief note on the disposition of the case. Calendars for later years also include rules of the court, an alphabetical index of cases and attorneys at...