Administrative correspondence of clerk of the Supreme Court, 1858-1940.

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Administrative correspondence of clerk of the Supreme Court, 1858-1940.

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The records of the clerk of the Supreme Court contain administrative correspondence to the clerk, and also consist of some personal correspondence. Among the administrative correspondence is information concerning court transcripts: requests to inform judges if transcripts have been sent, requests by attorneys to send transcripts, requests for court opinions, and other correspondence. On the letters of requests, the names of the cases are included, such as notifying attorneys that they have been admitted to the Alabama State Bar. Also included are letters from attorneys stating that they are sending mandates of the Supreme Court of the United States to the Supreme Court of Alabama. There are some briefs and other legal documents, including notices of appeal, writs, oaths, certificates and abstracts. This series serves as a guide to the administrative functions of the Clerk of the Supreme Court of Alabama. Includes records of clerks J. Render Thomas, Robert Fulwood Ligon, John Dennis Phelan and Sterling Alexander Wood. The bulk of the records cover the years 1858, 1897-1898, and 1900-1940.

26 cubic ft. (26 records center cartons).

Alabama Department of Archives and History

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SNAC Resource ID: 6754051

Alabama Department of Archives and History

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United States. Supreme Court

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Supreme Court of the United States, final court of appeal and final expositor of the Constitution of the United States. Within the framework of litigation, the Supreme Court marks the boundaries of authority between state and nation, state and state, and government and citizen. Scope And Jurisdiction The Supreme Court was created by the Constitutional Convention of 1787 as the head of a federal court system, though it was not formally established until Congress passed the Judiciary Act in 17...

Phelan, John Dennis, 1810-1879.

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Wood, Sterling Alexander, 1859-1924.

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Ligon, Robert Fulwood, 1864-1939.

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Ligon was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1864 to Robert Fulwood and Emily Paine Ligon. The younger Robert Ligon graduated from Alabama Polytechnic Institute (later Auburn University) in 1882. He was admitted to the bar in 1886; entered a law partnership with George P. Harrison at Opelika in 1888; and moved to Montgomery in 1892 and became the law partner of Tennent Lomax. In 1898 he was appointed clerk of the Alabama Supreme Court, a position he held for approximately forty years. Ligon was also ...

Alabama. Supreme Court

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Thomas, J. Render.

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