AGENCY: District Court (Third District)
SERIES: 3243
TITLE: Case file index
DATES: 1871-1896.
ARRANGEMENT: Chronological, thereunder alphabetical by initial letter(s) of the plaintiff's surname.
DESCRIPTION: The territorial CASE 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 case files. Civil cases span the entire period (1871-1896). Criminal cases were indexed in this series from 1871 to 1882, when a separate filing arrangement for criminal case files was implemented. Information about most cases is limited to the name of the plaintiff, the name of the defendant, and the case number. Rarely is the date of filing recorded. The cause of action is mentioned only in proceedings pertaining to court business (grand jury lists and reports, orders summoning persons to serve as jurors, etc.), the probate of an estate, applications (such as name changes or corporate dissolution), and, rarely, petitions for extraordinary writs (habeas corpus, mandamus, and certiori).
The Third District Court is restricted to adjudication of actions involving real property located within the Third Judicial District, those in which the defendant resides in the Third Judicial District, and those involving incidents occurring in the Third Judicial District.
RETENTION
DISPOSITION
RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION
These records are in Archives' permanent custody.
FORMAT MANAGEMENT
Paper: Retain in State Archives permanently after microfilming.
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 historic value and facilitate access to the case files. The permanent disposition of the case files is based on their historical and legal value.
PRIMARY DESIGNATION
Public. UCA 63G-2-301 (1) (f) states that all judicial records are public unless a court orders the records restricted under the rules of criminal or civil procedure.