Oregon Historical County Records Guide
Coos County Records Inventory
Judgment and Execution Records
1860-1939
Series records official decisions by the court and subsequent instructions to the sheriff to recover costs and awards related to debt, divorce, and other civil cases. The record serves as the official notice of the existence of a lien. Information includes title and case number; names of plaintiff, creditor, defendant, debtor, and attorney; amount of judgment; description of property levied on; writ of execution; disposition of case; decisions on appeals; dates docketed and satisfied; and volume and page numbers where recorded. Records may include judgment dockets, execution dockets, and fee books. Judgment and execution records have been inventoried through 1920.
Records at the Coos County Courthouse, Old Jail Storage:
Circuit Court Judgment Docket [title varies], vol. 3-7, 1877-1924
(5 volumes);
County Court Judgment Docket, vol. 1, 1893-1939 ( 1 volume);
Docket County Court [Judgment], 1860-1887 (1 volume);
Execution Docket [with index], vol. 2, 1873-1899 (1 volume); vol. 3, 1899-1931 (1 volume);
Sheriff's Execution Docket [includes attachments-with
index], vol. 1, 1904-1922 (1 volume).