AGENCY: Laketown (Utah)

SERIES: 9974
TITLE: Laketown precinct justice of the peace docket books
DATES: 1872-1947.
ARRANGEMENT: Chronological

DESCRIPTION: These two volumes were used to document individual cases heard by the Laketown Precinct Justice Court. They contain the date, the names of the parties involved (plaintiffs and defendants), the complaint or reason for the hearing or court appearance, the name of the justice of the peace, the names of the attorneys, the type of papers filed, and the decision rendered in the case. Criminal and civil matters are contained in these volumes. More than one dozen marriages are recorded in the earlier volume. The justices also kept an accounting of costs associated with each case. There is a seven-year gap between the two volumes in archives' custody. The first covers 1872-1903 (with two cases from 1908) while the second spans 1910-1947.

RETENTION

DISPOSITION

RETENTION AND DISPOSITION AUTHORIZATION

These records are in Archives' permanent custody.

FORMAT MANAGEMENT

Paper: Retain in State Archives permanently with authority to weed.

APPRAISAL

Historical

This disposition is based on the record's secondary research value of documenting the minor criminal and civil actions handled in Laketown during its early settlement. Later dockets are destroyed in accordance with the Utah Courts Retention Schedule.

PRIMARY DESIGNATION

Public

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