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.
