Searching Cass County Civil Dockets
Indiana Odyssey Public Access, known as MyCase, is the first public route into a Cass County civil court docket. Have a cause number? Use the Case tab. The Name tab works for a person or business. The Attorney tab fits when counsel is the clearest identifier. Filters for court, case type, status, and file date can narrow a crowded result. Searching all Cass courts helps when the assignment is unclear.
- Choose Case, Name, or Attorney.
- Enter the most exact identifier available.
- Limit results by Cass court, type, status, or date.
- Compare the caption, filing date, and court.
- Open the CCS and read events in order.
- Request needed official copies from the Clerk.
MyCase is free to use. But a screen print is not a certified court record, and a result can leave out confidential filings, converted records, or older documents.
Cass Civil Allocation Map
Cass County runs three courts of record. Under local rules, small claims, independent protective orders, eviction civil cases, eviction small claims, and mental-health matters all sit in Superior Court I. Circuit Court takes paternity, guardianships, adoptions, and support actions. For other civil matters, initiating counsel may choose the court, subject to local rules and later transfer.
| Court | Code | Common civil lane |
|---|---|---|
| Cass Circuit | 09C01 | Support, paternity, guardianship, adoption |
| Superior I | 09D01 | Small claims, eviction, protective orders, mental health |
| Superior II | 09D02 | Other assigned or transferred civil matters |
Allocation is a search aid, not proof of where a file remains. After a transfer, consolidation, or reassignment, the latest CCS controls.
Inside a Cass County Civil Docket
A civil CCS is a dated register. It names the case and court. It lists public parties and their roles. It also tracks counsel, filings, notices, settings, orders, judgments, costs, and linked documents where remote access is allowed. Sometimes an event description refers to a paper that is not online. For that underlying document, the Clerk's file is the source.
| Case number | County, court, filing date, case type, and sequence. |
|---|---|
| Parties | Plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, respondent, or other public role. |
| CCS event | Date and short description of a filing, notice, order, or action. |
| Setting | Hearing type, date, time, court, and room when public. |
| Judgment | Recorded result; the signed order may supply needed context. |
Work through the Cass County civil docket entry by entry: a filing only shows that someone asked, and a hearing date is not the judgment itself.
Cass Civil CCS Reading
Think of Indiana's CCS as a running timeline for the case. Near the top sits the complaint or petition that started it. Service entries come next, recording each attempt at formal notice. From there the docket may list an answer or a motion. Later entries might show a hearing notice, an order, a judgment, or post-judgment steps. Labels on the timeline only summarize each act. For the full text, pull the pleading or order itself.
- CCS
- The Chronological Case Summary, Indiana's event-by-event court record.
- RJO
- The Record of Judgments and Orders, the Clerk's official record of those entries.
- Pending
- The case has not reached a recorded final end.
- Reset
- A hearing moved to another date; the case was not erased.
Sometimes an entry says a document was filed, yet no image shows up. Write down the date and title before you call the Cass County Clerk.
Civil Case Types on the Docket
Civil filings in Cass County go well beyond ordinary lawsuits. One civil docket can hold plenary actions, torts, collections, foreclosure, small claims, eviction, domestic relations, support, estates, guardianships, adoption, protective orders, mental-health cases, expungement petitions, and tax matters. Not everything on that list is equally visible to the public.
- Collections, contracts, torts, and foreclosure matters
- Small claims and eviction cases
- Domestic relations, paternity, and support actions
- Estates, guardianships, and adoptions
- Protective-order, mental-health, tax, and other civil matters
The case-type code is handy for narrowing a docket search. It tells you nothing about results, though: no winner, no proof of a claim, no money recovered.
Cass Civil Filing Scale
Cass courts logged 2,344 new civil filings in 2024, according to Indiana Trial Court Statistics. Collections led the mix at 830. Small claims followed with 306, evictions with 221, protective orders with 179, and mental-health entries with 137. The rest of the Cass County civil docket came from family, probate, tort, foreclosure, tax, and other civil matters. Read these numbers as activity counts. They measure filings, not unique people, judgments, or awards.
Superior I handled every small claims filing shown and 220 of the 221 displayed evictions. That pattern follows Cass County's allocation rule, so filtering by court in a docket search pays off quickly.
Cass Civil Docket Settings
Pull six details from any setting entry in the Cass County court docket: date, time, court, room, judge, and hearing type. Each setting has its own purpose. A conference, motion hearing, pretrial, final hearing, or trial all work differently. Knowing which one you face tells you what stage the case has reached. The CCS may show a reset or continuance later. So treat an old notice as a starting point rather than the last word.
Confirm through the current CCS first. Then follow the full path on Cass County court dates. If a hearing date stays unclear, call Circuit at (574) 753-7730, Superior I at (574) 753-7735, or Superior II at (574) 735-6841. Court staff can confirm scheduling details. They cannot give legal advice or predict a ruling.
Cass Small-Claims Form Limits
The Cass small-claims appearance form packs in a cause-number line, plaintiff or defendant boxes, and contact fields. There is also a fax-service choice. Spaces for date and signature round it out. Its job is narrow. You use it to take part in a case. It is not for a docket search, and it does not request copies.
A case lookup belongs in MyCase. A filed appearance goes through the authorized filing route or the court's own instructions. Copies come from the Clerk. The Clerk will want the court, cause number, document name, date range, and whether you need a plain or certified copy. Keeping these tasks apart keeps your private contact details off the wrong channel.
Cass Civil Fees and E-Filing
Filing a new civil case in Cass County starts with the fee. The Cass Clerk fee page puts a $157 civil filing fee on the books. It adds $10 for each added defendant. That added charge does not apply to e-filed cases, though. Small claims run $97 with the same qualified charge tacked on.
Family and probate matters carry their own numbers on the Cass County docket. Divorce is $157. Paternity is $176, adoption $157, and estates, guardianships, or trusts come in at $177. Protective orders cost the filer nothing.
| Service | Published amount |
|---|---|
| Plain copy | $0.25 per page |
| Certified copy | $3 plus copy pages |
| Small-claims filing | $97, plus qualified added-defendant fee |
| Civil filing | $157, plus qualified added-defendant fee |
E-filing only sends authorized filings into Odyssey, the case management system behind the Cass County court docket. It is not the public docket search. And an electronic notice is not a court-date reminder, so keep tracking hearings on your own.
Cass Civil Access Channels
MyCase gives the public the CCS, along with some linked public documents. Cass County Clerk Destry Richey holds the official records for all three Cass courts. Visit the counter in Room 407 at 200 Court Park in Logansport. Listed hours are weekdays, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. For copies, certification, older files, RJO entries, estates, or a current balance, call (574) 753-7740.
Need a hearing date? The assigned court is the best source for that. A court reporter handles transcripts. Indiana's statewide e-filing manager serves approved filers, not public searchers. Cass County offers no dedicated online court-copy request form. There is no general email route and no public bulk download. The county public-information form is no shortcut. It does not replace the Clerk as keeper of court records.
Cass Civil Docket Access Rules
Indiana treats court records as public by default. Cass County follows that rule. Still, what you can see from home may be less than what the Clerk's office will hand you at the counter. Some material stays closed no matter where you ask. That includes juvenile cases, adoptions, expunged items, protected personal data, and anything a rule or court order seals. Protective orders and mental-health dockets carry their own limits too, so a debt case and a sealed family matter may not follow the same access rules at all.
Key rules:
Access Rule 4 states the general public-access presumption.
Access Rule 5 identifies excluded categories.
Access Rule 9 provides a verified extraordinary-access request.
A blank search result does not mean the case is absent. It only means your docket lookup returned nothing you can view. Ask the Clerk about a record's public status rather than pressing for protected details.
Cass Civil Source Boundaries
City and police pages are not a stand-in for the Cass civil docket. The public-information request route covers county administrative records, not the Clerk's court-copy form. Federal civil cases live elsewhere entirely. They sit in the Northern District of Indiana system reached through PACER.
Match the source to the item you need. MyCase holds the CCS. The Clerk keeps the official file and issues certified copies. The court controls a hearing setting. The court reporter holds a transcript, and an e-filing provider handles an authorized filing. That chain keeps things distinct. An online docket event, the pleading beneath it, and an authenticated court record stay separate.