Archives treasure #3: State Supreme Court files, 1854-1998
(The State Supreme Court in 1968. Photo courtesy of the State Archives’ Susan Parish Collection.) As the repository for Washington’s governmental records and documents, the State Archives has files going waaay back. In the case of the Washington Supreme Court, all the way back to 1854, when we were just a fledgling territory after splitting from Oregon Territory. The State Archives has more than 4,100 cubic feet of records that document the opinions and decisions of every case decided by…