Person

John T. Crow

A Clarke County magistrate whose decision in a suit over automobile repairs was appealed to the County Court early in 1925.

What the sources support

The Clarke Courier of February 5, 1925 reports that a decision of Magistrate John T. Crow, in a suit over repairs to an automobile after an accident, was appealed to the County Court, where a jury annulled the verdict won in the lower court at a hearing before Judge Frank B. Whiting.

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What the source supports

That John T. Crow was a magistrate, and Frank B. Whiting a judge, in Clarke County in 1925.

Uncertainty

Read from uncorrected OCR, not from the page image. The OCR prints "same" for came. The item does not say which district Crow served or when he decided the case. The parties to the suit are not recorded here.

Source

Reporting

Evidence role: supports. The Courier's report of the appeal.

Clarke Courier, Berryville, Va., February 5, 1925

Clarke Courier · 1925-02-05 (publication)

Locator: Page 1, item on an appeal from a magistrate's decision to the County Court

Relevant passage

... who appealed the decision of Magistrate John T. Crow in the case which ... brought against her for repairs to his automobile necessary following an accident last July, was awarded a verdict by a jury in the County Court, annulling the verdict the plaintiff won in the lower court. The case same [came] up for hearing last Saturday before Judge Frank B. Whiting.

Checked: Existing OCR reviewed. Original image not independently inspected.

Open source

Source family: clarke-courier. Multiple passages from one source are not independent witnesses.

AI-assisted source check (Claude Opus 5) · 2026-09-15. How this project checks its sources

Also indexed as: Magistrate John T. Crow. Life dates that aren't known aren't guessed at here.

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