Docket Book of the 448th Georgia Militia District, Justice
Court, Banks County, Georgia
January 28th, 1882-March, 1889 with additional
memoranda
Joshua White, N. P. & J. P. and Robert A. Brown,
N. P. & J. P.
Note: This ledger type book was found discarded in an
anteroom off the upstairs courtroom in the Historic Courthouse in Homer, Banks
County, Georgia. Sadly, this slim
volume is among many historic documents relating to Banks County abandoned
to their fates in terrible conditions.
SECTION TWO-January 3 1885-March 1889
Page 75
Justice Court 448th Dist. G. M.
Saturday January the 3rd 1885
Fountain G. Moss vs Willie Boling
Promisory note principal $50.00
Original issued and copy served promply on the Defendant
Judgment is hereby rendered by the court in favor of
the plaintiff against the Defendant for the sum of fifty Dollars principal
and the sum of four Dollars & forty cents Interest and one Dollar &
forty cents cost of suit.
Joshua White N. P. & J. P.
Execution Issued January the 13th 1885
Page 76
Justice Court 448th Dist. G.M.
Saturday January the 3rd 1885
J. T. Latner Jr. vs F. H. Cash
Promisory note principal $6.80
Original issued and copy served promply on the Defendant
Judgment is hereby rendered by the court in favor of
the plaintiff against the Defendant for the sum of Six Dollars & Eighty
cents principal and the sum of Sixty one cents Interest up to Judgment and
one Dollar & forty cents cost of suit
Joshua White N.P. & J. P.
Execution levied January the 13th in the hands
of A. C. Moss
Page 77
Justice Court 448th District G. M.
Saturday January the 3rd 1885
Patapsco Guano Co. vs Reuben Dalton
Promisory note principal $56.25
Credit $30.15
Balance $26.10
Original Issued and copy promply served on the Defendant
Judgment is hereby rendered by the court in favor of
the plaintiff against the Defendant for the sum of twenty six dollars &
ten cents principal and the sum of one Dollar and fifty six cents Interest
and the sum of one Dollar and forty cents cost of suit.
With ten per cent Attorneys fees $2.70 Joshua White N. P. & J. P.
Execution Issued January the 13th 1885
Page 78
Justice Court 448th Dist. G. M.
Saturday January the 3rd 1885
Thomas Hayden vs William R. Dalton
Promisory note principal $7.72
Original Issued and copy served promply of the Defendant
Judgment is hereby rendered by the court in favor of
the plaintiff against the Defendant for the sum of seven Dollars & seventy
two cents principal and the sum of three Dollars & fourteen cents interest
and one Dollar & forty cents cost of suit
Joshua White N. P. & J. P.
Execution Issued January the 13th 1885 in
the hands of A. C. Moss attorney at law
Page 79
Justice Court 448th District G. M.
Saturday January the 3rd 1885
Patapsco Guano Co. vs F. G. Massey
Promisory note principal $37.50
Original issued and copy served promply on the Defendant
Judgment is hereby rendered by the court in favor of
the plaintiff against the Defendant for the sum of thirty seven Dollars &
fifty cents principal and the sum of two Dollars and thirty three cents Interest
and one Dollar & forty cents cost of suit
With ten per cent on principal & Interest as Attorneys
Fees $3.98
Execution Issued January the 13th 1885
Page 80
Justice Court 448th Dist. G. M.
Saturday January the
3rd 1885
Power, Key & Co. vs F. G. Massey
Open account principal $26.36
Original Issued and copy served promply on Defendant
Judgment is hereby rendered in favor of the plaintiff
against the Defendant for the sum of twenty six Dollars & thirty six cents
principal and one Dollar and forty cents cost of suit.
Joshua White N. P. & J. P.
Execution Issued January the 13th 1885
Page 81
Justice court 448th District G. M.
Patapsco Guano Co. vs F. M. Jordan (prin), W. S. Dudley
(sect) & Thomas Jordan (sect)
promisory note principal $53.25
Original Issued and copy served promply on the Defendant
Judgment is hereby rendered by the court in favor of
the plaintiff against the Defendant for the sum of fifty three Dollars &
twenty five cents principal and the sum of three Dollars & nineteen cents
Interest and the sum of two Dollars cost of suit. With ten per cent Atty fees
$5.64
Joshua White N. P. & J. P.
Execution Issued January the 13th 1885
Page 82
Justice Court 448th District G. M.
Saturday January the 3rd 1885
J. J. Anderson vs John R. (?) Cape
promisory note principal $35.23
Original Issued and service acknowledged by the Defendant
Judgment is hereby rendered by the court in favor of
the plaintiff against the Defendant for the sum of $35.23 thirty five and
twenty three cents principal & Interest $3.09 and the sum of three Dollars
& eighty two cents Attorneys fees & the further sum of one dollar
and five cents cost of Suit.
Joshua White N. P. & J. P.
Fifa issued February the 25th 1885 in the
hands of A. C. Moss Atty at Law
Page 83
Justice court 448th District G. M.
Saturday February the 7th 1885
Thomas Hayden vs B. J. Percell
Promisory note principal $2.50
Original issued and copy served promply on the Defendant
Judgment is hereby rendered by the Court in favor of
the plaintiff against the Defendant for the sum of two Dollars & fifty
cents principal and the sum of seventy one cents Interest and one Dollar and
forty cents cost of suit.
Joshua White N. P. & J. P.
Settled in full this March 7th 1885
Page 84
Justice Court 448th District G. M.
Saturday February the 7th 1885
Andrew J. Segers vs William T. Lynch & John A. Lynch
Promisory note principal $35.00
Original Issued and copy served promply on Defendants
Judgment is hereby rendered by the court in favor of
the plaintiff against the Defendants for the sum of thirty five Dollars principal
and the sum of five Dollars & fifty one cents Interest & the sum of
two Dollars cost of Suit.
Joshua White N. P. & J. P.
Received on the above case five Dollars $5.00 Feby the
7th 1885
Received on the above case $5.00 five Dollars this April
the 4th 1885
May the 9th 1885 Received on the above Judgment
$10.00
August the 10th 1885 Received on the above
Judgment $5.00
1885 October the 16 Received on the above Judgment $4.50
Criminal Cases
November the 11th 1881
(My note-this entry is out of date in the sequence of
this docket book. It is written in brown period ink, whereas the preceding
entry is written in blue ink)
The State of Georgia vs Andrew Faulkner (colored)
Misdemeanor
Defendant having been arrested on a warrant and brought
before us the undersigned Evidence being heard in the above stated case it
is hereby ordered by the court that the Defendant be committed to Jail on
failure to give Bond as required by law this Nov. The 11th 1881
Joshua White N. P. & J. P.
R. L .Hooper N. P. & J. P.
Page 86
Criminal Docket 448th District G. M.
August the 25th 1884
The State Plff. Vs William A. Boling Def.
Charge Midemeanor
The Defendant having been arrested and brought before
a court of inquiry
after carefully Examining the Evidence in the above case
it is hereby ordered that the Defendant be acquitted and warrant Dismissed
at plaintiff’s cost.
Joshua White N. P. & J. P.
Page 87
Criminal Docket 448th District G. M.
August the 25th 1884
The State Plff. Vs Thomas Simmons Def.
The Defendant having been arrested and brought before
a court of inquiry after carefully Examining the Evidence in the above case
it is hereby ordered by the court that the Defendant be acquitted and warrant
Dismissed at plaintiff’s cost.
Joshua White N. P. & J. P.
Page 88
Justice Court 448th District G. M.
Saturday March the 7th 1885
Goldsmith Brothers agt. Z. F. Gibson vs J. C. Parker
Promisory note $5.25
Original Issued and service acknowledged by Defendant
Judgment is hereby rendered by the court in favor of
the plaintiff against the Defendant for the sum of five Dollars & twenty
five cents principal, and the sum of twenty one cents Interest and one Dollar
& five cents cost of suit.
Joshua White N. P. & J. P.
Note-This is the last entry made by Joshua White N. P.
& J.P. There is, at the bottom
of Page 88, a note in different ink and handwriting stating “Examined and
approved by the County March 16 1885
Page 89
Debt in Justice Court 448th dist. Georgia
Militia
G. W. Smith vs T. J. Jordan & W. E. G. Walls or Watts
original Summons issued Dec. 19th 1885. Copies
served personaly on the Defendant Dec. 22nd 1885 by A. Davis L.
C.
The above Case dismissed for want of proper Service without
Cost.
This Jan 2nd 1886
Robert A. Brown N. P. & J. P.
Page 90
Debt in Justice Court 448th District Georgia
Militia
G. W. Smith vs W. E. G. Watts & T. J. Jordan
Promisory note issued Jan 7th 1886
Copy served personaly on the Defendants W. E. G. Watts
and T. J. Jordan by leaving Copy at his usual place of Abode by J. A. Davis
L. C. Jan 19th 1886
Feb 6th 1886
Judgment by Default
Principle 85.41
Intrust (sic) 1.00
Cost 1.70
Feb 6th 1886
Robert A. Brown N. P. & J. P.
Execution Issued Feb 10th 1886
Received on the above Payment in Full this Jan 7th
1887
Page 91
In Justice Court 448 district G. M.
E. L. Duckett & Co. Plaintiff in fifa
vs W. N. Simmons Defendant & Ira Simmons Claimant
Claims Case
Execution Levied by J. A. Davis L. C.
The above Claim withdrawn by the plaintiff.
Feb the 6th 1886
Robt. A. Brown N. P. & J. P.
Page 92
In Justice Court 448th dist. G. M.
Claim Case
G. C. Carter plaintiff in fifa
vs Col Jackson Defendant & J. S. Chambers Claimant
The claimant in the above case not appearing, it is ordered
by the court the claim be dismissed at Claimants cost.
This the 6th day of February 1886
Robert A. Brown N. P. & J. P.
Bottom of page 92
Examined and Approved by Comitt. March Term 1886
H. J. Ragsdale
Page 93
Memorandum Docket
In Justice Court 448th Dist. G. M.
Sweet (?) N. P. & J. P.
Mrs. S. C. Chenault vs Green Martin
Witnesses for Defendant, sub. A. R. Gaily & Milton
Lynch
December Term 1888
Appealed Dec 4/88 and Summons Issued for Joe Stephens,
A. R. Gaily, M. Lynch
Mrs. S. C. Chenault vs Andy Segars
Witnesses for defendant, J. W. Parker subpoenaed, Miltom
Lynch
Note-At this point the pages are either empty or there
is just some note without signatures or conclusions to cases.
Page 94
H. C. Kytle vs W. B. Meek, J. Acree sect.
Suit on Note
Summons Issued Sept. 16th 1889
The last entries are on pages 116 and 117. They appear to be calculations of costs on
various cases. In this section I will
only list the names in the cases and dates entered.
Mrs. Chanault vs Andy Segars 3 Nov 1888
E. L. Duckett & Co. Vs Elic Junkin 6 Dec 1888
J. L Payton vs. H. F. Cash 5 July 1889
Mrs. Chenault vs Green Martin 1 Dec, 2 Feby no year
J. F. Edwards vs J. H. Evans 21 Nov 1889
R. D. Moss vs H. H. Cash 5 July 89
J. J. Whitlock vs A. J. Strickland 16 July 1888, 26 May
1889 Paid
J. C. Or I. C. Chitwood
vs. P. H. Grant 2 July 1888
Mrs. S. C. Chenault vs Bird Washburn 2 March 1889
J. J. Jordan vs Chas. & L. (?) Cash 2 March 1889
Paid July 6 1889
Transcription © 2005 by Jacqueline King