When are we going to get some of the earlier suits?

Barbara Vines Little, CG, FNGS, FVGS

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On 11/2/2011 11:24 AM, Brooks, Vincent (LVA) wrote:
> The latest images from the Augusta County Chancery Causes digitization
> project are now available on the Chancery Records Index
> <http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/default.asp#res>  . With this
> addition, fifty boxes of Augusta County chancery covering the time
> period from 1879 through 1895 may be viewed online.
>
> Following are a few suits of interest found in this latest addition.
> Augusta County Chancery Cause 1880-119
> <http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=015-1880-119>
> is a contract dispute that centered on the construction of an addition
> to Wesleyan Female Institute in Staunton. The case includes numerous
> exhibits such as the 1877-1878 school bulletin (image# 134-159),
> receipts for building materials (image# 195, 200) and two drawings of
> the addition (image# 213, 215). Augusta County Chancery Causes 1884-057
> <http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=015-1884-057>
> and 1895-023
> <http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=015-1895-023>
> are property disputes in which the plaintiffs accuse the defendants of
> doing harm to the value of their property. In the first suit, the
> plaintiff argues that heat and fumes from the defendant's brick kiln
> adversely affected the value of his property (image# 41). In the second
> suit, the defendant built a slaughterhouse and stockyard near the
> plaintiff's house (image# 491) polluting a stream and causing
> insufferable smells and noises all of which depreciated the value of the
> plaintiff's property.
>
> Most notably, this portion of the Augusta County Chancery Causes
> includes suits that have their origins in the real estate boom and bust
> period of 1890s western Virginia. Many of the suits contain plats of
> subdivisions and towns (Basic City, for example) that never came to be
> or were short-lived. See Augusta County Chancery Causes 1893-030
> <http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=015-1893-030>
> (image# 103-104, 106), 1893-120
> <http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=015-1893-120>
> (image# 101), 1894-131
> <http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=015-1894-131>
> (image #139), and 1894-148
> <http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=015-1894-148>
> (image# 44).
>
> This scanning project is funded by the Circuit Court Records
> Preservation Program<http://www.lva.virginia.gov/agencies/ccrp/>   and a
> $150,000 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records
> Commission<http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/>   (NHPRC).
>
> Happy researching!
>
>
>
> Vincent T. Brooks
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> Senior Local Records Archivist
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