Scope and Contents From the Series: The Santa Barbara County Court records contain over twenty-three hundred (2,300) individual court cases beginning with California statehood through the first decade of the twentieth century. The cases are organized in one large chronological series by date. The variety of court case represented span legal proceedings from debt settlement to probate to murder. The plaintiff and defendant names documented in these cases are a Who's Who of notable Santa Barbara Californios and early American...