Series 249 - Miscellaneous Case Files of the Fifth Circuit Court

Contains cases 1 through 115. Files for cases 52 through 80 were not transferred to the Archives.

The bulk of the records are administrative court documents that were jacketed and assigned miscellaneous case file numbers by the Fifth Circuit Court. Miscellaneous cases are civil in nature and include arbitrations, bankruptcies, disputes over land, money, and water rights, insolvencies, and labor contract enforcement. Administrative records include appointments of magistrates to district court, commissions of district court magistrates, court financial reports, criminal and civil calendars, jury lists, minutes to chamber proceedings, prison reports to the court, and summons. If a case involved property claims, the file may contain information on land titles and family history of plaintiffs and defendants. Case file jackets contain citations to circuit court minute book entries to individual miscellaneous cases. Also contains occasional correspondence between the Fifth Circuit Court judge, district judges and judges of other circuits, the marshal, sheriff, and plantation owners. Case file 10 contains census, school, and tax collection records of Edward P. Bond, who served as both a circuit court judge and Kauai school treasurer. The native and foreign jury lists, jury pay records, and prisoner lists found throughout the records contain names and places of residence of people from Kauai and Niihau. Appeals from the district or police court contain the lower court records relating to the case.

Records in this series dated before 1892 may be identified as Fourth Circuit Court documents. Kauai and Niihau were designated as the Fourth Circuit prior to 1892.

None of the documents have been translated.