Series 17825

DISTRICT COURT (FOURTH DISTRICT) [276]

CIVIL AND CRIMINAL REGISTERS OF ACTIONS, 1878-1896.
5 microfilm reels

DESCRIPTION: Records and documents pertaining to a particular civil or criminal 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. Criminal registers became a separate series in 1889. The Fourth District Court was created in 1892 from the Northern Division of the First District Court; the Northern Division included Box Elder, Cache, Morgan, Rich, and Weber Counties. Court normally convened in Ogden, Weber County. Until 1880, these counties were part of the Third District Court. The registers were retained as they transferred from district to district.

A register of actions may contain the following entries for each 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: Entries are numerical by case number, thereunder chronological.

RESEARCH NOTE: Researchers should consult this series to ensure finding all the actions which occurred in a case. They may also want to check records of all the district courts to which the counties belonged over time.

RELATED RECORDS: Series 1529, CASE FILES, 1878-1895, and Series 1629, CRIMINAL CASE FILES, 1889-1895, contain the entire case file listed in these registers. Series 21933, CIVIL CASE INDEXES, 1878-1916, facilitates access to this series, as does Series 17463CRIMINAL CASE INDEXES, 1879-1947. Series 5062, MINUTE BOOKS, 1878-1896, documents the proceedings of each case. Series 17462, CRIMINAL REGISTERS OF ACTIONS, 1880-1892, contains copies of pages pulled from this series.

FINDING AIDS: Series 21933, CIVIL CASE INDEXES, 1878-1916 and Series 17463, CRIMINAL CASE INDEXES, 1879-1947, provide access to this series.

PROCESSING NOTE: Registers of Actions were first scheduled in 1983 as permanent records. This series was archivally processed by David Clark in June 2000.

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

CONTAINER LIST

Reel	Description
1	1-47; Dec 9, 1878-Feb 12, 1880 (Vol. A)
2	1-499; Mar 11, 1880-Mar 8, 1884 (Vol. A)
2	500-1099; Mar 8, 1884-Jan 15, 1887 (Vol. B)
2	1100-1999; Jan 17, 1887-Jan 19, 1889 (Vol. C)
3	2000-3929; Jan 19, 1889-May 31, 1892 (Vol. D)
4	3930-4999; Jun 1, 1892-Feb 12, 1894 (Vol. E)
5	5000-5928; Feb 12, 1894-Jan 3, 1896 (Vol. F)