A Guide to the Pulaski County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1841-1912
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the Library of Virginia
Chancery Records Index: Pulaski County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1841-001-1912-025
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
There are no restrictions.
Use Restrictions
Patrons are to use digital images of Pulaski County Chancery Causes found on the Chancery Records Index available electronically at the website of the Library of Virginia.
Preferred Citation
Pulaski County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1841-1912. (Cite style of suit and chancery index no.). Local Government Records Collection, Pulaski County Court Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
Acquisition Information
Digital images were generated by Backstage Library Works through the Library of Virginia's Circuit Court Records Preservation Program.
Historical Information
Chancery Causes are cases of equity. According to Black's Law Dictionary they are "administered according to fairness as contrasted with the strictly formulated rules of common law." A judge, not a jury, determines the outcome of the case.
Pulaski County was named for Count Casimir Pulaski, the Polish patriot who served in the American army during the Revolutionary War and who was killed during the siege of Savannah in 1779. It was formed from Montgomery and Wythe Counties in 1839. Part of Wythe County was added to Pulaski in 1862. The county seat is Pulaski.
Scope and Content
Pulaski County (Va.) Chancery Causes, 1841-1912, are indexed into the Chancery Records Index . Cases are identified by style of suit consisting of plaintiff and defendant names. Surnames of others involved in a suit, including secondary plaintiffs and defendants, witnesses, deponents and affiants, and family members with surnames different from the plaintiff or defendant are indexed. Chancery causes often involved the following: divisions of estates or land, disputes over wills, divorces, debt, and business disputes. Predominant documents found in chancery causes include bills (plaintiff's complaint), answers (defendant's response), decrees (court's decision), depositions, affidavits, correspondence, lists of heirs, deeds, wills, business records, or vital statistics, among other items. Plats, if present, are noted, as are wills from localities with an incomplete record of wills or localities other than the one being indexed.
Chancery causes are useful when researching local history, genealogical information, and land or estate divisions. They are a valuable source of local, state, social, and legal history and serve as a primary source for understanding a locality's history.
Related Material
Additional Pulaski County Court Records can be found on microfilm at The Library of Virginia web site. Consult "A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm."
See the Chancery Records Index to search for chancery suits of additional Virginia localities.
Index Terms
- Pulaski County (Va.) Circuit Court.
- African Americans--History.
- Business enterprises--Virginia--Pulaski County.
- Debt--Virginia--Pulaski County.
- Divorce suits--Virginia--Pulaski County.
- Equity--Virginia--Pulaski County.
- Estates (Law)--Virginia--Pulaski County.
- Land subdivision--Virginia--Pulaski County.
- Pulaski County (Va.)--History.
- Chancery causes--Virginia--Pulaski County.
- Deeds--Virginia--Pulaski County.
- Judicial records--Virginia--Pulaski County.
- Land records--Virginia--Pulaski County.
- Local government records--Virginia--Pulaski County.
- Plats--Virginia--Pulaski County.
- Wills--Virginia--Pulaski County.
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Selected Suits of Interest
Pryde and Jones sues the railroad for payment for gradation and masonry work performed on the railway. The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Co. Monthly Estimates Ledgers, 1850-1855 were entered as exhibits in the case and are available at the Library of Virginia.
Boyd successfully sues the railroad company for attempting to lay tracks within fifty feet of his home.
Darst and Cecil sue the Pulaski Development Company for misleading them in the purchase of a lot of land. The land was promised to be near the site of a future hotel and a depot for the Norfolk and Western Railroad.
Various contractors, carpenters, etc. sue the Virginia Company and Thomas N. Anderson for non-payment of work done building an addition to the Maple Shade Inn on a lot owned by the Virginia Company.
Case concerns land improvement and development in the county and includes a plat of the proposed developments.
Case involves construction on the Maple Shade Inn.
Railroad sues Koger for letting his cow wander onto the tracks.
Phillippe seeks the court to declare Moon's property liable in the payment of a judgment. Deposition of Seagle a furntiture dealer includes a discussion on whether or not white people would buy second hand furniture formerly owned by colored people.