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Legal documents

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

Albert Hazen Wright papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-26-1382
Abstract Correspondence, field notes, lecture notes, study notes, typescripts of articles, genealogies of the Wright family and of Noah Downs, negatives, slides, photographs, clippings, drawings, census reports, maps, New York publications and printed material, transcripts of oral history interviews with Wright, manuscripts of his scientific books, and other material pertaining to his career as a zoologist, university professor, lecturer, and author. Other subjects include the Cornell Natural History...
Dates: 1779-1965.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Albert Hazen Wright papers

Albert Hazen Wright research materials

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1692
Abstract Correspondence, notes, outlines, typewritten and photo copies of newspaper articles, directories, court and census records, clippings, photographic prints and negatives, and other items used in the writing of Wright's histories of the New York State Agricultural College at Ovid, New York, the New York Central College at McGraw, New York, and the People's College at Havana (now Montour Falls) New York, as they pertained to the early history of Cornell University. Also sources pertaining to...
Dates: 1779-1960.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Albert Hazen Wright research materials

Albert T. Wilkinson collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 398
Scope and content Letter books, account books, assessment rolls, and other documents relating to legal cases tried in Oneida County, New York, by firms of Davies and Johnson, and Davies, Johnson, and Coville. Letters of John G. Davies, Attorney General of the State of New York, containing letters to Robert M. LaFollette, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Hamilton Fish, and Thomas C. Platt. Account books of Dr. Robert Frazier, 1852-1891. Account books, assessment rolls, relating to the village of Camden, New...
Dates: 1854-1908.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Albert T. Wilkinson collection

Andrews et al. vs. Durant et al. notes and document

 Collection — Manuscript box 31 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065246344]
Identifier: 1112m
Scope and content

Printed document laying out the particulars of the case as it came before the New York State Court of Appeals in 1854. Also, a letter from attorney B.F. Greene to attorney F. Kernan concerning the case (1859), and notes evidently for a judge's decision in the case (undated).

Dates: 1854-1859.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Andrews et al. vs. Durant et al. notes and document

Bankruptcy proceedings for Henry K. Salisbury and Charles F. Salisbury

 Collection — Manuscript box 7 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240776]
Identifier: 1106m
Scope and content

Typescript legal documents and manuscript notes concerning the bankruptcy of Henry and Charles Salisbury, both as individuals and as co-partners in the firm Erie Knitting Mills in Amsterdam, New York. The firm was heavily in debt to Skenandoa Cotton Company. Collection includes details of the Erie Knitting Mills' inventory and finances. The bankruptcy case rose to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York.

Dates: 1902.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Bankruptcy proceedings for Henry K. Salisbury and Charles F. Salisbury

Bentley vs. Hanna legal documents

 Collection — Manuscript box 31 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065246302]
Identifier: 1102m
Scope and content

4 items including manuscript and printed legal documents on the appeal in the case, which came before the Court of Appeals of New York State. Printed documents lay out the attorneys' arguments for and against reversing the initial judgment. The manuscript appears to be a draft of the judge's verdict in the appeal.

Dates: circa 1852-1854.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Bentley vs. Hanna legal documents

Buffalo & New York City Railroad vs. Thomas J. Dudley legal document

 Collection — Manuscript box 8 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065240842]
Identifier: 1124m
Scope and content 22 leaves of a fragment of a judge's decision in the appeal of the case, which involved unpaid debts owed by the Attica and Hornelsville Rail Road Company (subsequently named the Buffalo & New York City Railroad). Manuscript in faded ink, with "Court of Appeals. The Buffalo & New York City Rail Road Company, respdt, agt Thomas J. Dudley, applt." at head of first page, but struck out. The respondent referred to in the body of the manuscript is the Attica and Hornelsville Rail Road...
Dates: 1858?
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Buffalo & New York City Railroad vs. Thomas J. Dudley legal document

Cattaraugus County legal documents

 Collection — Manuscript box 3 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239828]
Identifier: 382m
Scope and content 7 items including legal documents concerning members of the Lawler family of Ellicottville and Salamanca, Lawrence J. Connors of Ellicottville, and the McDermott family of Cattaraugus County, New York. Included are an agreement concerning the sale of stock in a planned corporation to operate a general store in Ellicottville (1922); records of deeds involving lands owned by the McDermott family (1913); a document forming a business partnership between Eugene M. Lawler and Walter E. Lawler...
Dates: 1913-1927.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Cattaraugus County legal documents

Cayuga Heights park and cemetery documents

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2232m
Scope and content

4 items including abstracts of title and deeds concerning the sale of land in Cayuga Heights to the Lake View Cemetery Company for what was to become Lake View Cemetery, and to Cayuga Heights Park Association for what was to become Sunset Park. The private owners selling the land included Jared T. and Jane E.W. Newman, Charles H. and Louise M. Blood, Herman and Adeline T. Bergholtz, Horace E. and Mary Mulford Hand, and Alfred and Helen E. Hand.

Dates: 1909-1921.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Cayuga Heights park and cemetery documents

Documents concerning the arrest of shirtless women in Rochester, NY

 Collection — Manuscript box 86 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924112441245]
Identifier: 7756
Scope and content

Seven legal documents regarding the defense of ten women in Rochester, NY arrested in 1989 for not wearing shirts in public.

Dates: 1989-1992.
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / Documents concerning the arrest of shirtless women in Rochester, NY

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