AGENCY: District Court (Fourth District)

SERIES: 1666
TITLE: Plaintiff's index
DATES: 1880-ca. 1895.
ARRANGEMENT: Alphabetical by initial letter of the surname or corporate name of the plaintiff.

DESCRIPTION: The territorial PLAINTIFF INDEX records the names of plaintiffs and defendants involved in court actions and provides assigned case numbers, facilitating clerical management of and access to the civil case files. The single volume carries the imprint "Plaintiff's Index to Fee Books, A, First Judicial District Court, Utah" on the spine. First created when Ogden, Weber County, was established as the seat of the newly formed northern division of the First District Court, the volume continued to be used after the creation of the Fourth Judicial district in 1892. Primarily an index to civil cases, the volume includes fewer than 30 criminal cases filed between 1880-1886 listing the "United States" as the plaintiff.

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

These records are in Archives' permanent custody.

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in State Archives permanently and then microfilm.

Microfilm master: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

Microfilm duplicate: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

APPRAISAL

Administrative Historical

This disposition is based on the 1993 records retention policy of the Utah Judicial Council (in UCA, Utah Court Rules Annotated, Appendix F), which has remained unchanged since the 1980 issue of the state Records Retention Schedule (Utah State Archives and Records Service, Department of Finance 1890, page 1). Indexes have administrative and historic value and facilitate the clerical management of and access to the court files. The permanent disposition of the case files is based on their historical, administrative, and legal value.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public

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