Series 29732District Court (First District : Rich County) Civil registers of actions
Dates: 1896-1978
1.00 cubic foot
These records are housed in the Utah State Archives' permanent storage room.
Scope and Content
This series contains register books used to document actions in civil cases heard by the court. Civil cases are those in which disputes between parties involving legal rights and wrongs are judged and determined. As records or actions are filed for each case, the court clerk enters them into a register. Though the reasons are unclear, a small number of cases related to mental competency and adoption, normally handled as probate matters, were recorded in this series. The registers of action in this series contain such information as the names of plaintiffs and defendants, names of attorneys, petitions, complaints, summons, court orders, findings, and judgments as well as the date each action was recorded.
Arrangement
Numerical by case number and generally chronological by filing date.
Related Records
Civil case index from the District Court (First District : Rich County), Series 29729, indexes cases in this register.
Civil and probate case indexes from the District Court (First District : Rich County), Series 29731, index cases in this register.
Custody History
The First District Court for Rich County transferred the records in the series dating from 1896-1978 to the State Archives in November 2018.
Access Restrictions
This series is primarily classified as Public. The secondary classification is Exempt: This series includes records pertaining to adoptions that are restricted for 100 years under Utah Code 78B-6-141. These entries have been redacted in the reference copy of the series..
Preferred Citation
Cite the Utah State Archives and Records Service, the creating agency name, the series title, and the series number.
Processing Note
This series was archivally processed by Mahala Ruddell in December 2018.Page Last Updated .