Series 6381
District Court (Third District : Salt Lake County) Miscellaneous case files
Dates: 1940-1992.
20 microfilm reels
These records are housed in the Utah State Archives' permanent storage room.
Historical Note
An agency history is available.
Scope and Content
The case files are a collection of all documents and actions filed with the court clerk in connection with individual court actions. They provide documentation of the proceeding from initial filing through disposition or dismissal. Such papers and actions include petitions, notices, and applications initiating the court action, waivers and documents consenting to extradition, depositions relating to cases pending in out-of-state courts, inquests into the deaths of Salt Lake County residents, relinquishment of newborn children for adoption, releases signed by unmarried, pregnant women agreeing to a financial settlement and freeing the alleged fathers from further financial responsibility, court-ordered sterilization of mentally retarded individuals, letters, transcripts, exhibit documents, subpoenas, notices, invitations to judges of other district courts to sit in Third District Court, requests to appoint individuals as a judge pro temporein order to perform a marriage ceremony forfriends, and judge's orders or decrees including approval of newspapers for publication of legal notices, approval to dispose of accumulated evidence, and an order sealing adoption orders.
Records and documents pertaining to a particular action are filed together by the court clerk, who is required by the Rules of Civil Procedure to file pleadings and other legal papers. Collectively they constitute the case file. Case numbers are assigned by the court when papers are initially filed with the clerk. The case files document the legal process and the administration of justice in conjunction with miscellaneous cases that do not involve a hearing and generally need only the formality of a judge's signature for approval and thus take up little judicial time. Ex parteproceedings are common. These records are distinguished from series 1622, CIVIL CASE FILES (1896-present), which involve disputed cases wherein issues are more complex and proceedings more protracted.
Gaps in Series
Missing are cases from February 1977 to January 1980, with the exception of one case from 1978 and eight cases from late 1979.
Research Note
Researchers should first consult the finding aids to determine the case number or volume and page number.
Research Note
Researchers should first consult the finding aids to determine the case number or volume and page number.
Access Restrictions
Microfiche holdings require staff assistance due to fewer reference copies. Handle masters under supervision.
Reproduction and Use
These records are available for reproduction and use.
Finding Aids
Indexes: An alphabetic index is found at the beginning of each volume of the REGISTER OF ACTIONS, Series 14157, covering from 1925 thru 1977. Indexes: The miscellaneous case files are indexed alphabetically by COURT CASE INDEXES, Series 14158, covering from 1977 thru 1988. Indexes: The miscellaneous case files are indexed numerically by COURT CASE INDEXES, Series 14159, covering from 1977 thru 1988.
Related Records
Civil case files from the District Court (Third District : Salt Lake County), Series 1622, where formerly designated miscellaneous cases were integrated with the civil case files beginning in 1993.
Miscellaneous case files (restricted) from the District Court (Third District : Salt Lake County), Series 14156, contains those cases sealed by court order or otherwise restricted.
Miscellaneous civil and criminal file registers of actions from the District Court (Third District : Salt Lake County), Series 14157, record the filing of the original documents with the court clerk and serves as an index to the case files.
Court case indexes from the District Court (Third District : Salt Lake County), Series 14158, serve as an alphabetic index to the miscellaneous case files.
Court case indexes from the District Court (Third District : Salt Lake County), Series 14159, serve as a numeric index of the miscellaneous case files.
Tax commission case files from the District Court (Third District : Salt Lake County), Series 14160, generated by the State Tax Commission were alternately filed with the miscellaneous case files and the tax commission case files.
Indexing Terms
Court records--Utah--Salt Lake County.
| REEL | DATE | DESCRIPTION |
| 1 | 1963 - 1969 | No case numbers |
| 1 | 1974 - 1977 | No case numbers |
| 1 | 1925 - 1962 | 1-44 to 1-168 |
| 2 | 1949 - 1961 | 2-91 to 2-130 |
| 3 | 1962 | 2-131 to 2-147 |
| 4 | 1963 - 1966 | 3-13 to 3-151 |
| 4 | 1968 - 1969 | No numbers, book 4 |
| 4 | 1966 | 4-1 to 4-11(cont) |
| 5 | 1966 - 1969 | 4-11(cont) to 4-79(cont) |
| 6 | 1969 - 1970 | 4-79(cont) to 4-89 |
| 7 | 1969 - 1973 | 5-1 to 5-124 |
| 8 | 1973 - 1974 | 5-125 to 5-191 |
| 9 | 1974 - 1976 | 5-192 to 5-265 |
| 10 | 1976 - 1977 | 5-266 to 5-310 |
| 10 | 1977 | 77-1 to 77-155 |
| 10 | 1978 | 78-79 |
| 10 | 1979 | 79-169 to 79-217 |
| 10 | 1979 | 79-218 to 79-223 |
| 10 | 1980 | 80-2 to 80-97 |
| 10 | 1981 | 81-1 to 81-50 |
| 11 | 1981 | 81-51 to 81-91 |
| 11 | 1982 | 82-1 to 82-49 |
| 12 | 1982 | 82-50 to 82-75 |
| 13 | 1982 | 82-76 to 82-136 |
| 13 | 1983 | 83-1 to 83-23(cont) |
| 14 | 1983 | 83-23(cont) to 83-130 |
| 15 | 1983 | 83-131 to 83-166 |
| 15 | 1984 | 84-1 to 84-88 |
| 16 | 1984 | 84-89 to 840122 |
| 16 | 1985 | 85-1 to 85-89 |
| 17 | 1985 | 85-90 to 85-147 |
| 17 | 1986 | 86-1 to 86-51 |
| 17 | 1986 | 86-52 to 86-70(cont) |
| 18 | 1986 | 86-70(cont) to 86-152 |
| 18 | 1987 | 87-1 to 87-51 |
| 19 | 1987 | 87-52 to 87-152 |
| 19 | 1988 | 88-1 to 88-50 |
| 20 | 1988 | 88-51 to 88-140 |