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W.C. Burnett legal miscellany, 1856-1879.
Burnett, W. C. (Wellington Cleveland), 1830?-1907
1855-1872
MS 3521
Complaints, answers, subpoenas, briefs, summonses, affidavits, testimony, attorney's notes, a mortgage, a deed, letters, and other legal documents and papers pertaining to property and divorce suits handled by Burnett as part of his private law practice. Included here are legal papers from a suit filed against North Beach and Mission Railroad Company by an African American woman, Emma Jane Turner, for refusing to admit her on one of their streetcars, 1866-1867.
Burnett was a San Francisco attorney.
Previously titled: Wellington Cleveland Burnett legal documents, 1855-1872.
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