Original papers of settled civil cases of various types including cases filed in BALTIMORE COUNTY COURT before 1851 and cases removed from the Baltimore City Court and Baltimore Court of Common pleas and transferred to the Superior Court beginning in December 1851; Filed by first letter of the surname then chronologically. Each case was originally assigned to a box and is annotated with box number, docket page number written above the docket year and docket entry number (in later cases); original order has been somewhat compromised but roughly maintains this format with original boxes having been consolidated into larger file drawers then 1X1 archival storage boxes each housing 2-3 original boxes. Access is through BALTIMORE CITY SUPERIOR COURT (Cases Instituted, Docket) MSA C1497.

For court boxes 1 to 508 and 2616 to 3001 see MSA T51.

Locating a file:

To locate a file in MSA T583 first locate it in the (Cases Instituted) [docket] MSA C1497 and identify the given box number, year of the court term, docket page and docket entry number for that case. These last three will better assist locating the case within the box since there is no case number written on the file itself. These will be handwritten entries on the cover of the case file in the form of the example 275 326/1924; in that, docket entry number: 275, docket page: 326, court term year: 1924.

Note: for years 1914-1916 the inventory entries incorrectly give box range but more likely these are docket page numbers for the given year.