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Circuit Court, St. Croix County, Wisconsin, criminal and civil case files, 1850-1929, 1967-1985.

• 1850-1985 (creation)

150 cubic feet (150 record cartons)

Case files relating to criminal and civil cases brought before the St. Croix County Circuit Court. Cases may include complaints, summonses, warrants, motions, appeals, judgments, and orders. Criminal offenses may relate to cases such as murder, assault and battery, adultery, larceny, fornication, illegal liquor sales, vandalism, and gambling. Civil suits may involve monetary transactions, personal disputes, divorce cases, and other family court-related matters.

Arrangement : Case file order, which is generally chronological to when case was filed.

COLLECTION STORED, ALL or IN-PART, AT ARC: Collection can be requested for transfer through the Area Research Center (ARC) Network, consult Reading Room Staff.
RESTRICTED: Records in Boxes 140-150 may include information relating to Paternity and Family Maintenance, which are restricted by Wis. Stats. 767.853 and 767.57(1)(c), respectively. Reference archivist should review records before providing access.

Researchers are responsible for using in accordance with 17 U.S.C. Copyright may have not been transferred to the University of Wisconsin-River Falls.

Name index of divorce case files available from UWRF Area Research Center.

Circuit Court, St. Croix County, Wisconsin, indexes to civil actions, 1850s-1979 (St. Croix Series 75) serves as a partial index to civil cases in this series.

• St. Croix County, Wisconsin, Circuit Court indexes to civil actions, 1850s-1979.

Similar organizational schemas are used throughout case file types. Civil and Criminal cases shared the same numbering system (interfiled) until at least 1929. Later files, including family and civil cases have some crossover until county courts merged with Circuit Courts in 1978 and the file naming conventions were changed to reflect yycasefiletype######. For example, 78FA10 (or 78FA000010) would be the 10th family case filed in 1978 with the circuit court. Some folders are labeled County Court, or have materials labeled County court therein - this is because there were transference of some records to Circuit Court after the '78 merger. You will also note that there are few family court cases prior to the 1970s; this is because prior to that time, many of these family court cases (namely divorces) would have been referred to County Courts; however, that is not always the case.
Appears to be some discrepancies beginning around case files 641 or so - perhaps may be the result of retroactively numbering previously unnumbered (and earlier) case files? Perhaps different circuit court judges/clerks had things stored differently/numbered differently. If you don't have a case file number and are looking for cases circa 1850-1865, you may need to check case files numbered 650-1036, in addition to those numbered 1-500.

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