AGENCY: District Court (First District)
SERIES: 21018
TITLE: Plaintiff index
DATES: 1878-1890.
ARRANGEMENT: Alphabetical by the 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. Carrying the imprint "General Index of Actions, Third Judicial District Court, Ogden, Utah Territory" on the spine, this volume began as an index to cases heard at the Weber County seat. Case numbers 1-47 were assigned. The same volume continued to be used after Weber County was transferred into the First Judicial district in 1880. A new numbering system was instituted for cases 1-2,427, starting over with case 1. Information about most cases is limited to the name of the plaintiff, the name of the defendant, and the case file number.
Civil cases span the entire period (1878-1890) while criminal cases were included in this series until June 1889, when a separate filing arrangement for criminal case files was implemented. The district court is restricted to adjudication of actions involving real property located within the judicial district, those in which the defendant resides in the judicial district, and those involving incidents occurring in the judicial district.
RETENTION
Permanent. Retain until administrative need ends
DISPOSITION
Transfer to Archives.
RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION
These records are in Archives' permanent custody.
FORMAT MANAGEMENT
Paper: Retain in Office until administrative need ends and then transfer to State Archives.
Microfilm master: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.
Microfilm duplicate: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.
APPRAISAL
Historical Legal
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 1980, page 1). The indexes have administrative and historic value and facilitate the clerical management of and access to the civil and criminal case files. The permanent disposition of the case files is based on their historical, administrative, and legal value.
PRIMARY DESIGNATION
Public