Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 3. JUDICIARY, COURTS

CHAPTER 10. JUSTICES' COURTS

Part 10. Small Claims Division

Docket Entries

3-10-1005. Docket entries. The justice of the peace shall enter in the docket kept by the justice for small claims cases the following:

(1) the title of each action;

(2) the amount claimed;

(3) the date the order of court/notice to defendant was signed and the date of the trial as stated in the order;

(4) the date the parties appeared or the date on which default was entered;

(5) each adjournment, stating on whose application and to what time;

(6) the judgment of the court;

(7) a statement of any money paid to the justice, when, and by whom;

(8) the date of the issuance of any abstract of the judgment; and

(9) the date of the receipt of the notice of appeal, if any is given, and of the appeal bond, if any is filed.

History: En. 93-361 by Sec. 17, Ch. 572, L. 1977; R.C.M. 1947, 93-361(2); amd. Sec. 200, Ch. 61, L. 2007.