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RG 21 - U.S. District Courts, Equity Case Files (Circuit Court) - Bowling Green, Kentucky


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Equity Case Files, 1901-1911
National Archives Identifier 719121
This series consists of equity case files, usually involving disputes over property rights. The cases consist of matters where a party was seeking injunctive relief and relied on the court to determine what was fair and equitable. Many of the cases were filed to resolve patent or copyright infringements. Equity cases also included legal matters not covered by statute or requiring proceedings before a jury, such as filings of assignees and trustees, who were seeking to recover certain properties from defendants' bankruptcy cases. The case files may include the following types of records: bills in equity, supplemental bills, bills of complaint, affidavits, agreements, answers, amended answers, bonds, decrees, demurrers, depositions, exhibits, injunctions, joinders, motions for injunctions, motions for extensions of time, motions to dismiss complaints, notices of appeals and motions, opinions, orders including orders of referral, orders on motions and petitions, and orders overruling demurrers; petitions including petitions for restraining order, petitions for rules to show cause, petitions to distribute assets, petitions to produce documents and petitions to stay proceedings; praecipes, proofs of service, replications, reports of special masters, rules for attachment, stipulations, subpoenas, testimony, warrants and writs of certiorari.

Case Box Plaintiff Defendant Type Date
1 1 M. H. Crump Cincinnati Cooperage Company Equity 653
2 1 G. A. Hurt Admin. S. W. Francis Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation Law 1234
3 1 Margaret Quigley travlers Insurance Company Law 1438
4 1 Bedford-Bowling Green Stone Company Catherine Oman Equity 1276
5 1 Eugene A. Wooten Gainesboro Telephone Company, et al Law 1808
6 1 John P Hanna & Harry P. Wiborg T. B. Hammon Law 1714
7 1 Hassie M. Carne South Kentucky Oil Company Law 1672
8 2 Eugene A. Wooten Gainesboro Telephone Company, et al Law 1917
9 2 Linfield M. Hogan Hollenbach May Contract Company Law 1791
10 2 C. B. Childers Ayer & Lord Tie Company Law 2536
11 2 M. C. Byrum W. S> Clanahan Law 3414
12 2 E. W. SUDDETH Wadsworth Stone & Paving Company Law 3460
13 2 William Stewart, Admin. Lousiville & Nashville Railroad Company Law 3619
14 2 Gainesboro Telephone Company, et al Geroge J. Ellis Law 4077