Contract suit. This case involves division of a large land patent originally granted by Governor Dunmore in 1773. Land was in Barbour County, then Bath County, and then Allegheny County.

Debt suit. This suit references contracts for constructing a number of miles of the Lexington and Covington Turnpike.

Estate suit. Her father bequeathed Robinson's wife money, but the administrators say that Robinson refused to accept any notes except bank notes from The Bank of the United States.

Debt suit. The chancery cause concerns land containing the Rumsey Iron Works.

Debt suit. Suit is a simple debt suit, but contains information on the so-called "Saxon Colonization Project." Over one million acres in western Virginia and Kentucky were acquired from James Swann (Boston), alleged agent of Lewis Eisenmenger. Various members of French and German royalty were involved in the speculation scheme designed to settle poor people from Saxony on the Virginia frontier. In addition to Alleghany County [see also 1836-006, George Seivley vs. Charles T. Taylor, etc], several other localities have chancery causes related to land allegedly owned by Eisenmenger and sold by Swann [Bath County, Tazewell County, and Wythe County].

Contract suit. The chancery cause concerns the construction of the Blue Ridge Tunnel.

An estate case determining the correct partition of land. Included is a deposition which go in-depth into the efforts of providing care to a child who either died shortly after birth or was stillborn. It was legally relevant whether the child lived a short time, as the mother, who also passed shortly after the birth, was one of the inheritors of the estate and if the child had lived briefly, the father could inherit the land.

A debt suit which began after Ledford A. Hall proposed marriage to Mary B. Hall in order to coerce her into sexual intercourse. He abandoned her and married someone else, while Mary gave birth to an illegitimate child. She sued for damages and received a judgement in her favor. She filed this suit in a chancery court in order to force him to pay the judgement.

The plaintiffs built a hotel along the railroad and ran it for many years, until a second hotel was built nearby. The plaintiffs asked the court to shut down the second hotel, as there weren't enough travelers to support two hotels in the area.

A decree in this divorce suit includes custody information and what would today be called a "no-contact" order against B.F. Holland, restraining him from contacting both Roxanna and their children.

Turner Hackman sued for divorce from his wife Carrie M. Hackman because she had abandoned him and married another man. Further details reveal that they were married secretly in DC because both had jobs in the federal government (Turner was a page in congress and Carrie worked for the Department of Agriculture) and if they were found out to be married, Carrie would have lost her job. At some point, Turner chose to leave his job as a page in DC and move to Iron Gate, VA and Carrie chose to remain in DC. Soon after, Carrie left her job as a clerk in the DoA and married another man, before leaving DC for Philadelphia and Chicago. Carrie never responded to the suit and it was alleged she and her new husband were in Europe. Included in the suit is correspondence from Carrie to one of her coworkers about her choice to marry and leave her job.

Adaline Hall sued for divorce from her husband Austin after he contracted a venereal disease and infected her with it. Austin and Adaline were Black and one of the women Austin had an adulterous affair with was white.

A suit filed to recover damages from the death of E.T. Beard which occurred while he was working on a Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co. train.

Lizzie Benton sued for divorce on the grounds of adultery. Thomas Benton worked in the Low Moor Mines and had an affair with a woman there. Depositions provide information about gender expectations in mine towns.

In 1831, land was conveyed to acting justices of the peace and their successors of Alleghany County by Samuel Merry and Robert Kelso. The deed specified the land was to be used for purposes related to the law only. The Alleghany courthouse and jail were built on the lots and in 1853, Andrew Damron, a practicing lawyer, was allowed to build a law office on one of the lots with an annual rent of $1. The building was only to be used as a law office. RL Parrish, another practicing lawyer, purchased the office from Damron in 1874 and built an addition onto the office. The Board of Supervisors, in 1893, ordered the county to eject Parrish from the office because of the county's plans to use the land the office was on for other purposes.

Contract suit which contains extensive information on mining operations and geological formations in and around Alleghany County circa 1890s. Included are ore charts and land surveys done at the time.

Debt suit which contains information on the final years of the "Valley Virginian" newspaper upon its removal from Staunton to Clifton Forge.

L.A. Brizindine sued for divorce on the grounds of marriage under false pretenses. L.A. was threatened by Octavia's father because Octavia was pregnant with a child and alleged the child was L.A.'s. Her father threatened to have him charged with the crime of seduction, which could lead either a fine or prison time and as LA was too poor to afford a lawyer for court, chose to marry Octavia. He sued for divorce after Octavia continued to see other men.

Contract suit. Bowmen owned a plot of land in Alleghany. After becoming engaged to Kuhn, she deeded the land over to him, at which point he left the state. She filed suit, alleging he had promised to marry her under false pretenses and with the intention of stealing her land.

Business suit which focused on the Intermont Hotel in Alleghany and determining whether the new managers have allowed the hotel to fall into disrepair and moral decay.

A debt suit which contains extensive information about the effect of the 1890s economic collapse on land in Alleghany.

G.H. Noble sued for divorce on the grounds of being married under false premises. Noble was forced to marry Elizabeth under threat of being murdered by her brother's in law. Elizabeth was pregnant at the time and Noble admitted to having intercourse with her, however after the baby was born months too early for him to be the father, he sued for divorce.

This suit was filed by Delaney, the legal guardian of Bessie Patterson, a widowed woman under the age of 21. Delaney sought to use the remainder of Patterson's deceased husband's life insurance to invest in property on behalf of his ward. As Patterson was still a minor under the law, she had been appointed a guardian to handle her financial affairs despite having already been married and widowed. Depositions in the suit also provide information on Patterson's husband's death in a railway accident.

McMunn made a noise complaint against England's bowling alley. Included is descriptions of who visited the bowling alley, how bowling was played in 1910, and how its location was detrimental to residents of the area.

Lawrence James, Emma James' husband, was killed after a boiler exploded at the West Virginia Pulp & Paper Company. Emma believed she had "no valid claim" to sue her husband's employer for negligence, but the company had agreed to give her money. The contract specified that by taking the money given to her by the company, she removed any present or future claims as to the company's liability in Lawrence's death.

This debt suit is concerned with the sale of a property which was used as a "moving picture outfit" or a movie theater in Covington, Virginia.

A debt suit filed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for the costs of the prosecution against him for feloniously shooting at with the intent to kill two different men. The suit contains jury instructions which provide more information on the nature of Barger's felony assault charge.