Series 14182

District Court (Seventh District : Carbon County) Civil registers of actions

Dates: 1896-1987.

13 microfilm reels

These records are housed in the Utah State Archives' permanent storage room.

Scope and Content

Civil cases document the legal process and the administration of justice in conjunction with civil proceedings for the determination of a controversy between parties wherein rights are enforced or protected, or wrongs are prevented or redressed. Records and documents pertaining to a particular civil action are filed together by the court clerk and collectively these documents constitute the case file. As these records or actions are filed, the clerk enters them in the registers which comprise this series. The clerk is required as documents enter the case file to make a notation that shows "the nature of each paper filed or writ issued and the substance of each order or judgment of the court and of the returns showing execution of process. The notation of an order or judgment shall show the date the notation is made. When trial by jury has been properly demanded or ordered the clerk shall enter the word "jury" on the page assigned to that action [UCA 79 (b) (2)]."

A register of actions may contain the following entries for each civil case: name of the attorney for plaintiff and defendant, name of the judge presiding over the case, petitions, complaints, summons, answers to summons, orders from the court, assignment of judges, exhibits, judgment, findings and conclusions, costs, decrees, requests by attorneys for instructions to the jury, verdict, motions for cross complaints or new trials, amendments to previous answers and disclaimers.

Arrangement

Numerical by case number, thereunder chronological

Research Note

Researchers should consult this series to ensure finding all the actions which occurred in a case. After July 1, 1987, further logging of actions is done elsewhere in court records.

Related Records

Minute books from the District Court (Seventh District : Carbon County), Series 14180, documents the proceedings of each case.

Civil case files from the District Court (Seventh District : Carbon County), Series 84954, contains the entire case file listed in these registers.

Additional Forms

This series is available on microfilm.

Access Restrictions

This series is classified as Public.

Preferred Citation

Cite the Utah State Archives and Records Service, the creating agency name, the series title, and the series number.

Processing Note

Registers of Actions were first scheduled in 1983 as permanent records. This series was archivally processed by David Clark in February 2000. After microfilming is completed, the original volumes will be destroyed.

Indexing Terms

• Divorce suits--Carbon County (Utah).
• Corporate divestiture--Utah--Carbon County.
• Judgments--Utah--Carbon County.
• Carbon County (Utah)--Trials (Divorce).
• Carbon County (Utah)--Actions and defenses--Cases.
• Carbon County (Utah)--Habeas corpus.

Container List

REEL	VOLUME	DATE	DESCRIPTION
1	1	1896-1909	1-471
1	2	1909-1915	472-949
2	3	1915-1920	950-1545
2	4	1920-1923	1546-2179
3	5	1923-1926	2180-2816
3	6	1926-1929	2817-3447
4	7	1929-1933	3448-4092
4	8	1933-1937	4093-4744
5	9	1937-1943	4745-5394
5	10	1943-1947	5395-6042
6	11	1947-1950	6043-6682
6	12	1950-1954	6683-7334
7	13	1954-1958	7335-7984
7	14	1958-1962	7985-8635
8	15	1962-1966	8636-9285
8	16	1966-1971	9286-9935
9	17	1971-1975	9936-10585
9	18	1975-1977	10586-11235
10	19	1977-1978	11236-11835
10	20	1978-1980	11836-12435
11	21	1980-1981	12436-13035
11	22	1981-1983	13036-13635
12	23	1983-1984	13636-14235
12	24	1984-1986	14236-14835
13	25	1986-1987	14836-15288