Crockett County Civil Docket Searches
The office holding the file is where a Crockett County civil docket search actually starts. For Circuit civil matters, begin with Kim Kail. She is the Circuit Court Clerk, and county trial cases where the court is unclear start there too. James Stephenson, Jr., the Clerk and Master, keeps the Chancery records. Tennessee Public Case History becomes useful only once a trial matter has been appealed.
An exact case number speeds any request. Without one, give the party or entity caption. Add an approximate filing year, the case type, and the court you expect. Ask for the docket or register when tracing procedure. Request the complaint, motion, order, judgment, exhibit, transcript, or certified copy as a separate step.
- Classify the matter as Circuit civil, Chancery, domestic relations, probate or trust, real estate, damages or torts, or another civil type.
- Contact the Circuit Clerk in Suite 6 or the Clerk and Master in Suite 5 at 1 South Bells Street, Alamo.
- Give the case number or caption, approximate year, and the exact record wanted.
- Ask whether public inspection is available at the counter or whether a written or mailed copy request is required.
- Confirm current copy, search, delivery, and certification charges before submitting payment.
- If the case was appealed, use the trial number to connect the local file to Tennessee Public Case History.
What the clerk can hand you varies. It may be an inspection register, a printed docket, a single public filing, or directions to another office. Call ahead on email requests, public terminals, and the civil calendar; the county publishes no firm policy on those options.
Crockett County Civil Dockets Use Two Clerk Offices
One courthouse, two records counters. Circuit and Chancery sit at the same address but answer for their own files. The Tennessee court directory lists Kim Kail as Circuit Court Clerk at 1 South Bells Street, Suite 6, Alamo, Tennessee 38001. Her number there is 731-696-5462. Under the District 28 Chancery rules, James Stephenson, Jr., Clerk and Master, works from Suite 5 at that same address, with phone 731-696-5458.
Circuit Court Clerk
Kim Kail
1 South Bells Street, Suite 6
Alamo, TN 38001
731-696-5462
Chancery Clerk and Master
James Stephenson, Jr.
1 South Bells Street, Suite 5
Alamo, TN 38001
731-696-5458
The two offices also carry distinct reporting labels. Official AOC tables tag Crockett Circuit Court as 17A1 and Crockett Chancery Court as 17A2. Treat those as report identifiers only. They are not fields you can count on in a public case search. Name the court in plain language. Ask the receiving office to redirect a request that belongs elsewhere.
The Tybera Tennessee support list shows that Crockett Chancery runs on eFlex/TnCIS for electronic filing.
That listing covers an e-filing channel for one court only. It does not create a free public Crockett County civil docket search, and it does not show Circuit records on the same system.
Civil Dockets: What They Show
A civil docket is a dated index, not the story of the dispute. Tennessee's appellate case-history display offers a helpful field model. Crockett trial records may carry different labels. Their layouts can differ too. Read every event with its court, date, and status attached. When an entry's full meaning matters, pull the document behind it.
| Case or docket number | The clerk's key retrieval identifier. No public Crockett civil number pattern was verified. |
|---|---|
| Case style and roles | The caption and roles such as plaintiff, petitioner, defendant, or respondent. |
| Filing and service | The complaint or petition, answer, notices, citation, and proof of service. |
| Motions and responses | Requests for court action and related responses; the docket line may not state the ruling. |
| Settings | Hearings, status conferences, settlement events, and trial dates, including later resets. |
| Orders and disposition | Orders, judgments, dismissals, transfers, defaults, or another recorded result. |
| Appeal information | A notice of appeal, appellate number, record transmission, decision, or mandate when applicable. |
| Access status | Public links, redactions, sealing, or protective-order limits where the system records them. |
Words like filed, set, continued, dismissed, and closed each mark a different procedural step. A motion marked filed has not been granted. A hearing entry does not prove the hearing happened, and no disposition label replaces the signed judgment.
What Cases Fill the Civil Docket
AOC reports for Crockett County show a civil workload spread across several categories. Court assignment turns on Tennessee law and local jurisdiction, so a category alone will not tell you the clerk. The annual Circuit table includes these civil groups:
- damages and tort claims;
- divorce matters involving minor children;
- residential parenting and child-support matters;
- interstate support and other domestic-relations matters;
- miscellaneous general civil disputes;
- real estate matters; and
- workers compensation and judicial hospitalization matters.
Chancery is the equity court, handling probate, trust, real-estate, and other matters assigned by law. General Sessions holds limited civil jurisdiction that shifts with county law. There is no complete Crockett case-allocation chart to consult. With a specific caption, just ask the clerk. The clerk knows which court owns that civil record.
Crockett County Civil Docket Numbers Need Context
The AOC Filings and Dispositions report for July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025 counts 66 Crockett Circuit filings and 66 dispositions. Inside that stretch, it lists 16 divorce-with-minor-children filings, 14 damages or tort filings, 13 miscellaneous general civil filings, and 11 residential parenting or child-support filings. Those figures describe one reporting period, not today's open cases.
The snapshot is dated March 31, 2025. It lists 11 pending Crockett Chancery records. Ten sat in the zero-to-three-year age band, one in the three-to-five-year band. The Crockett Circuit Civil row read blank or zero. A third report shows one Chancery damages or tort nonjury trial. The total award was $0.00 for the annual period.
The Tennessee AOC annual statistical archive holds the reporting context behind these figures.
The archive suits trend research. Its tables cannot locate a party, reveal a future setting, or produce a filing. And never add reports from different dates and court layers into a supposed live county total.
Hearings on the Civil Docket
Hearing entries on a Crockett civil docket come in several forms. You might see a hearing, status conference, settlement event, trial setting, continuance, or reset. Each label means something different. Read the entry alongside the court, judge, date, time, and event description when those fields appear. A filing date is not a hearing date. An order-entered date can differ from both.
The clerk posts no public Crockett civil calendar. Confirm any current setting with the clerk who keeps the case. Give the staff the docket number, court, party caption, and date range. Then ask whether a hearing calendar or docket-call list is maintained separately from the case file. The Crockett County court schedule process helps here. It explains how to compare a listed setting against a later reset or cancellation.
A scheduling order fixes deadlines and hearings, but later orders can move them. Orders entered later control. Read forward through the docket. When two dates conflict, the latest operative order plus a clerk-confirmed setting beats an old calendar entry or a saved search result.
Crockett County Civil Docket E-Filing Is Not Public Search
Tybera eFlex/TnCIS serves authorized users. It handles filing and document management behind a credential login. Crockett Chancery appears on Tybera's configured-court list. Electronic delivery inside that workflow is real. The login page is not an open public trial-docket portal, and credentials do not make it one. For the governing standard, the official Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 46A page describes electronic service for papers e-filed under the rule.
The rule deals with serving papers during a filing. It says nothing about public docket search. Crockett County civil court dockets stay closed to online lookup, so anyone wanting a case record still goes through the clerk of court and the usual court-record rules.
Keep the channels separate: eFlex supports authorized filing and retrieval where enabled. The Circuit Clerk or Clerk and Master remains the source for public inspection, copies, and certification of the local file.
Crockett County Civil Docket First, Operative Order Second
A docket entry may say that a complaint, motion, answer, or judgment was filed. Often that is all it shows. The allegations, requested relief, findings, and terms appear in the document itself, not in the entry. For close reading, use the docket as a map.
| Record | What it answers | What it does not replace |
|---|---|---|
| Docket sheet | What events were recorded and when | The text of pleadings or orders |
| Complaint or petition | What relief was requested | The court's later ruling |
| Motion and response | What action a party sought and opposed | A signed decision on the motion |
| Order or judgment | The court's operative terms | A certified copy when authentication is required |
Ask for certification by name. Crockett posts no civil copy or certification fee schedule. Before sending a request, have the clerk confirm the price, payment method, delivery format, and timing. A browser image or a third-party index is never a certified court record.
Who Can See Civil Dockets
Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 34 recognizes public inspection of public court records, subject to reasonable requirements and restrictions. The rule carves out exceptions. Sealed documents, protective-order material, records protected by statute or another rule, unpublished drafts, certain judicial deliberative records, and records whose release would interfere with the judicial function all stay closed. So a public docket can omit a sealed entry. It can also mask private identifiers.
Civil access rules:
Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 34 provides the direct public-inspection framework for court records.
The Tennessee Public Records Act, Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 10-7-503 and 10-7-504, supplies the broader access rule and statutory exceptions.
Tennessee Rule 114 restricts dependent and neglect files and may limit other juvenile records.
A records request should identify an existing record. Include enough detail for the office to locate it. Statewide TPRA guidance covers requests made in person, by phone, fax, mail, email, or online. Crockett publishes no court-specific access policy. Ask the clerk which channels it accepts. If access is denied, request the legal basis and ask whether a public or redacted version exists.
Never try to bypass a seal, protective order, expungement, or confidentiality rule. Protected identifiers deserve the same care. Avoid publishing full birth dates, account numbers, Social Security numbers, or other protected identifiers found in an older copy.
Crockett County Civil Dockets Can Continue on Appeal
A civil matter that begins in Crockett County can later surface in Tennessee's appellate system. Appeals create a second docket. Tennessee Public Case History allows appellate searches by case number, case style, party name, or business and organization name. A result may show the appellate number, originating trial court, trial judge, trial-court number, dated events, document links, disposition, and closed date.
One example comes from the state's highest court. An April 25, 2025 Tennessee Supreme Court announcement describes a civil suit that originated in Crockett County and reached that court. The example shows how a county trial number connects to an appellate opinion without exposing private details here. Neither replaces the trial docket. Nor do they substitute for a certified local file.
When an appeal exists, keep both numbers. Use the appellate portal for appellate events and opinions, and use the correct Crockett clerk for the trial record. A mandate is a milestone. It is not the original judgment. Nor does an appellate closed date explain every term of the trial-court result.
Check before acting. For the current status of any case, verify the latest docket event and operative order with the court that maintains the official record.