No. of Plaint – 870

Summons; Invoice for £2.16.3; Judgment Confessed

• Swanick is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £3.0.3. The amount is due for the amount of bill rendered to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.

No. of Plaint – 300

Summons; Invoice for £1.0.10

• Truitte is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of£1.3.8. The amount is due for three months and five days house rent at $15 per month.

File consists of one document: correspondence. Case regards a claim on the estate of W. Chapman for $35.50 on an unpaid bill.

File consists of two documents: affidavit of J. Gastineau; and order to hold to bail. Case regards the Defendant being indebted to the Plaintiff for $300 for work done by him as a surveyor. Plaintiff is concerned that Hubbs is about to leave Victoria for the San Juan Islands and asks that he be apprehended.

File consists of four documents: record; statement of defense; order; and particulars of demand. The Plaintiff claims $500 for a breech of contract by the Defendant. Plaintiff claims that he was employed by the Defendant to take "photographic views of divers, places, buildings and persons at Alberni." The Defendant would not pay the agreed price, nor would he pay for the goods sold and delivered, work done and materials provided by the Plaintiff at the Defendant's request.

File consists of two documents: (2) depositions on examiniation pursuant to order.

No. of Plaint – 710

Summons; Invoice for £15.7; Judgment Confessed

• Clark is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £17.17.10. The amount is due on an unpaid promissory note plus interest on that note.

File consists of four documents: Notice of Trial; List of Jurors; Abstract; Engrossed Copy of Abstract. Plaintiff is suing the Defendants for 203 pounds, 10 shillings and six pence, money paid by the Plaintiff to and for the Defendants at their instance and request. The Defendants take defense and deny the indebtedness and claim that the Plaintiff is indebted to them for 208 pounds, 6 shillings and 8 pence for rent

File contains: Original Writ of Summons. Ghirardelli complains that the Defendants are indebted to him in the sum of 203 pounds, 2 shillings and 6 pence for debt and costs regarding a piece of property of the Plaintiffs' that had been used by the Defendants.

File consists of three documents: Judgment on Confession; (2) Order. Plaintiffs at liberty to sign final judgment for $3,475.50 plus interest plus costs. The Defendants confess the action

File consists of one document: bill of sale wherein Goldstein and Seller, Importers and Wholesale Grocers, are seeking payment on an unpaid account of goods sold and delivered to Nelson and Co. in the amount of $2,670.35.

File consists of two documents: Judgment by Default; Affidavit of W.S.S. Green. Defendant is indebted to the Plaintiffs for goods sold and delivered in the amount of $2,670.33. Defendant is about to quit Vancouver Island

File consists of 2 documents: Order; Affidavit to Hold to Bail. The Defendants are justly and truly indebted to the Plaintiffs for $390 for principal money and interest due on a promissory note. The Plaintiffs are concerned that the Defendants are about to leave the colony and asks that they be apprehended.

File consists of 2 documents: Writ of Summons; Affidavit of H. Mason. The Plaintiffs claim $2,670 for debt and $7.50 for costs for goods sold and delivered by them to the Defendant at his request.

File contains: Plea. The Defendant Jones appears and takes defense to the action of Goodman and Goodman and says that he never was indebted in the manner and form as alleged in the said Declaration.

Five lists of individuals called for jury duty. Attendance noted, with several prominent citizens fined $100 for non-attendance.

File consists of 1 document: Grievances of the Grand Jury. Summary of grievances of the Grand Jury. They seem to feel that many of the cases brought before them are of a trivial nature and could be settled in a lower court. They are also concerned with the increase in crime and make suggestions as to how to curb the problem such as not issuing anymore saloon licenses, lighting the streets better, etc.

File consists of one document: a judge's order that the Plaintiff be at liberty to hold the Defendant to bail for $290.

Regarding the courtship of B.C. missionary William Gray’s daughter Caroline and Jacob Kamm of Portland, Oregon. Kamm was a steamship builder and owner of “George S. Wright.” Includes 11 letters.

No. of Plaint – 694

Summons; Invoice for £5.7.6; Invoice for £17.16.8

• Robson is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £20.10.2. The amount is due for various goods sold to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.

File consists of four documents: bill of costs; writ of summons; judgment by default; and affidavit of service. Case regards the Plaintiff's claim that Defendant owes $283.75 principal and interest due to him as payee on a promissory note.

File consists of eight documents: Affidavit of P. Grelley; Order; Order to Amend Bill; Notice of Motion; Summons; Affidavit of Service of Summons; Order; Affidavit of H.P. Crease. Plaintiff claims $730 owed to him by the Defendant for the use and occupation of the Colonial Hotel. Court Order states that the Receiver be at liberty to wind up the business of the Colonial Hotel and to bring on and pay the accounts of the said receivership.

File contains: Notice of Motion; (2) Draft: of Order; Receipt for Papers Out of Court; Notice of Filing Answer; Appearance for H. Kraft; Judges Minutes; Statement of Facts; Affidavit of Defendant Kraft; and Bill of Complaint. The Defendants leased the Colonial Hotel in Victoria from the Plaintiffs for one year. Disagreements arose between the parties and the Plaintiff asks that Kraft stops any further construction or renovation on the Hotel while the case between them is resolved with the Defendants paying the Plaintiff for damages suffered.

File consists of six documents: (2) Writ of Summons; Judgment; Affidavit of Johnson; Bill of Costs; Affidavit of Service. the Plaintiff claims $54.85 for debt and $12.50 for costs as the balance due on unpaid accounts

No. of Plaint – 636
Summons

• Grinj had previously obtained a judgment against the Defendant for £50 which remains unsatisfied. The Summons states that if the Defendant does not appear in obedience to this summons, he may be committed to the common gaol.

File consists of eight documents: notice to enter an appearance; affidavit of A. Crease; affidavit of service; consent to the order; affidavit of A. Luxton; affidavit of J. Lawson; affidavit of P. Irving; affidavit of W. Grohman. Case regards a dispute arising out of a land claim.

No. of Plaint – 852

Summons; Invoice for £18.19.1; Judgment Confessed

• Smith & Co. are summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £20.4.5. The amount is due for various goods sold to the Defendant by the Plaintiffs.

No. of Plaint – 482

Summons; Invoice for $10.92; Judgment Confessed

• Bunster is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of $16.12. The amount is due for goods sold to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.

No. of Plaint – 101
Summons; Invoice for £11.9.2 shillings

• Rodgers is summoned to appear in court to answer Halcrow for the total amount of £12.3.2, the amount of rent due for a house on Johnson St. that was formerly owned by one Mrs. Davis. The amount owed on this rent is $55.

File contains: Cross-Examination of E. Hall. Case regarding the relevance and privileged communications of information in the cross-examination of Hall (see [Hamley v. Edgar]).

File consists of three documents: Record; Return of Commission; Jury List. Defendant is involved in unlawfully and fraudulently shipping and otherwise dealing with certain unaccustomed goods, quantities of spirituous duties payable on them. Plaintiff claims 100 pounds for damages.

File contains: Affidavit of W. Hamley; Deposition of E. Hall; and a Writ. Case is regarding the transport and payment and duty on certain spirits that were going up North to be traded with the Indians.

File contains: (2) Order; Affidavit of G.J. Wright; and Abstract. The case matter is unclear.

File consists of one document: points of appeal. Case regards grounds of appeal against decisions of the Country Court Judge regarding and unsatisfied mortgage. "That if a mortgagee or a person having a limited interest in leaseholds renews on his own account he is a trustee for all the person interested in the old lease."

File consists of 3 documents: (3) Records. Regarding a mortgage transfer.

File consists of one document: affidavit of J. Hett.

No. of Plaint – 856

Summons; Invoice for £26.10.1; Bill of Costs for £3.5.0; Judgment Confessed

• Golding is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £29.5.11. The amount is due various goods sold to the Defendant by the Plaintiffs.

No. of Plaint – 717

Summons; Invoice for £8.6.8

• the Defendants are summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £8.18.8. The amount is due on a balance of account between the Plaintiff and the Defendants.

No. of Plaint – 719
Summons; Invoice for £6.2

• the Defendants are summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £6.1.4. The amount is due for various goods sold to the Defendants by the Plaintiff.

File contains: Affidavit of the Plaintiff, Affidavit of A.J. Rise; Bill of Complaint; Judges Order, Affidavit of J. Hill; and Injunction. The Plaintiff had bought 25 head of cattle at $50 per head from a Mr. I Carson, which were grazing on the pasture of the Defendant. When the Plaintiff's agent appeared, viewed the cattle and approved of the sale, asking that they now be delivered, the Defendant denied that they were the cattle of Mr. I. Carson and could not deliver them.

No. of Plaint – 98
Invoice for $136.04; Summons; Statement of Accounts

• Dowse is being summoned to attend in court to answer Harris for the amount of $136.04, due for meats and vegetables sold to the Defendant.

Writ. Plaintiff claims that the Defendant is greatly indebted to him and he believes that the Defendant is about to go into "parts beyond the seas" and the Plaintiff asks that he be apprehended and held to bail.

File consists of one document: Order of the Court. Plaintiff, a butcher, is suing the Defendant, a cattle dealer, for the sum of 2,500 pounds

File consists of 1 document: Affidavit of T. Guthrie. Guthrie was appointed to take charge of the Victoria Transfer Company's property. The Company appears to have owed various amounts to several creditors, of which Harrison is one.

File consists of one document: Judgment on Confession. Plaintiff are entitled to recover $3,800 U.S. currency from the Defendants. The Defendants confess the action.

File contains: Writ of Summons; Order; Summons to Show Cause. The Plaintiff claims $4,026.50 as the balance due on consignments of goods from the Plaintiffs to the Defendants on accounts stated between them.

File consists of two documents: (2) Affidavit to Hold to Bail. Plaintiff claims that the Defendant is truly indebted to him in the sum of $339.17 for payment on unpaid promissory notes. Keffee is master of the Schooner "Rose" and the case has something to do with this.

No. of Plaint – 841

Summons; Invoice for £4.17.11; Judgment Confessed

• Golding is summoned to appear in court to answer the Plaintiff for the total amount of £5.4.7. The amount is due for money lent to the Defendant by the Plaintiff.