AGENCY: District Court (Second District : Weber County)

SERIES: 21933
TITLE: Civil case indexes
DATES: 1878-1916.
ARRANGEMENT: Alphabetical by first letter of surname of plaintiff or defendant

DESCRIPTION: This series contains civil case alphabetic indexes created by the Court to record the names of the parties involved in actions and provide assigned case numbers, facilitating clerical management of and access to the case files. The indexes contain plaintiff name, defendant name, register of action book number, and case file number. Each index contains an alphabetic listing by plaintiff and by defendant. Weber County was in the Third District Court from January 21, 1859-January 19, 1880; First District Court from February 20, 1880-March 9, 1892; Fourth District Court from March 10, 1892-January 5, 1896 and Second District Court from January 6, 1896-[ongoing]. Weber County retained their indexes as they transferred from district to

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

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 1980, page 1). The indexes have administrative and historic value and facilitate clerical management of and access to the civil case files. The permanent disposition of the case files is based on their historical, administrative, and legal value.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public

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