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15 Utah 2d 295

Bainum v. Mackay

Utah Supreme Court

Decided April 28, 1964

Utah Supreme Court · decided 1964-04-28

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently February 2015

4 state decisions

Key passage — most relied on by later courts

“'because it grants all the relief sought in the petition and disposes of the proceeding”

quoted by 1 later decision, including 2003 UT App 112 - Harris v. IES Associates, Inc.

Relies on Mosseller v. United States

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1964-04-28

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HENRIOD, Chief Justice.

¶1Appeal from a judgment permitting Bainum to take depositions before action commenced, under Rule 27(a) Utah Rules of Civil Procedure. Reversed, with instructions to dismiss the petition. Costs to appellants.

¶2Appeal was taken August 15, 1963, and appellants’ brief was filed on September 17, 1963. Bainum’s counsel failed to file any brief at all, and did not appear at oral argument before this court on April 24, 1964.

¶3We have examined the petition and conclude that its contents, tenor and purpose did not justify invocation of the rule, being in the nature of a fishing expedition for the purpose of preparing a complaint. The rule has been held unavail*296able simply for that purpose.1 This type of judgment is appealable.2 We raised the jurisdictional question sua sponte.

McDonough, callister and WADE, JJ., concur.CROCKETT, T., concurs in the result.

¶4. 4 Moore’s Federal Practice 1825 and cases cited therein.

¶5. Mosseller v. United States, 2nd Cir., 158 F.2d 380 (1946) : “The order authorizing " the taking of the deposition is a final order for the purpose of appealability, because it grants all the relief sought in the petition and disposes of the proceeding.” See cases cited therein.

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