Courts

The collections contains financial records, minutes, Town Clerk's records, and legal dockets with related judicial orders and papers.

The collection contains a record book of court cases of this Superior, Wisconsin, attorney who was a partner in the firm of Bright and Hayes.

The Duluth ship canal was dug through Minnesota Point in 1870 to benefit the Duluth harbor.  The City of Superior, fearing the canal would change the flow of water through their ship entry, brought suit against Duluth to halt the construction. The collection contains a Circuit Court of the United States Bill of Complaint against the City of Duluth and a letter addressed to the City.

The collection contains a diary, notebook, letter press of Clark & Relf, 1865-1871; some correspondence, 1861-1866; and biographical information.

The collection consists of District Court exhibit photographs filed in the Clerk of Court’s office between 1911 and 1917 approximately. The photographs appear to be accident scenes or locations of accidents/incidents in Chisholm, Virginia, Biwabik, and Gilbert, MN.

Photographs taken in various Duluth locations for use as court exhibits. Some of the copies have case file numbers and most have names of Clerk of Court and photographers.

The collection consists of 4 scrapbooks of newspaper clippings.

The collection contains docket books for October 11, 1880 – September 8, 1881, and Duluth Village First Ward April 28, 1881 - March 23, 1885.

The collection contains three letters and a quit claim deed (1871).

The collection consists of one volume which contains notes taken by Bert Fesler while serving as Judge of the District Court for the 11th Judicial District of Minnesota. The volume also contains an index of cases.

The collection consists of a criminal docket book with index, 1915-1916 and a Judgement Book, 1903–1910.

The collection contains business correspondence, 1908–1932; news clippings of personal life and friends, 1911–1935; photographs of John P. Johnson, 1929–1931; miscellaneous, 1901–1935; and one scrapbook with news clippings of bank statements of condition, political articles, stock market conditions, census figures, and personal items, 1888–1914.

The collection contains indexed birth (April 17, 1910- April 11, 1947) and death (April 14, 1909-February 28, 1953) records, permits for burial or removal (May 20, 1916- January 9, 1921), municipal court records (March 2, 1910-July 18, 1961)

The collection contains a book of minutes of the court proceedings, 1869–1871, and an appearance docket, 1869–1877.

This collection consists of reports made by various county officials; applications for liquor licenses; claims against St. Louis County which have been ordered paid by the County Board; tax records; Auditor's correspondence; public examiner's report on school districts, boards of education, cities, towns, townships, and on St. Louis County; elelction tally sheets; proceedings of the St. Louis County Board of Auditors; and other papers filed with the St. Louis County Auditor.

The St. Louis County Court, 1st Judicial District, exercised jurisdiction over present day St. Louis, Lake, and Cook Counties. The collection consists of a transcript of court proceedings together with an alphabetical index to those proceedings.

The collection consists of a record book with the general laws of Minnesota which provided for the creation of this commission, its minutes and resolutions, and some loose resolutions, bills and business letters.

The collection contains marriage license applications for St. Louis, Cook and Lake Counties, Minnesota 1887-1890; marriage licenses, St. Louis County, 1888-1895 and 1888-1934. The collection also includes three volumes of judgments related to the 1918 Forest Fire, with accompanying indexes.

The collection contains personal letters, including a letter to his wife Sarah Burger Stearns, a speech, his will, an 1893 list of his property, military appointment certificates, documents relating to the practice of law, and certificates relating to the U.S. Supreme Court and the regents of Michigan State University.

The collection consists of a docketbook with index for April 17 – Aug. 8 1885. It also contains a Record of charters delivered to Officers from April 14th 1886 – May 19, 1887