Case Name: In re GEORGE C. BATES for a writ of Certiorari
Court: Utah Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Utah
Decision Date: 1875-06
Citations: 1 Utah 213
Docket Number: 
Parties: In re GEORGE C. BATES for a writ of Certiorari.
Judges: Lowe, C. J., concurs.
Reporter: Utah Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 213–213

Head Matter:
In re GEORGE C. BATES for a writ of Certiorari.
When Certiorari will be Granted. — An application to review proceedings in a lower Court by certiorari when there has been no judgment or final determination in such Court is premature, and will be denied.
Application for writ of Certiorari.
G. C. Bates, in person.

Opinion:
Emerson, J.,
delivered the Opinion of the Court.
This is a petition in this Court for a writ of certiorari to the Second District Court. '
The petition sets forth certain proceedings, in the course of which an order was entered against the petitioner, requiring, him to show cause,- at a time fixed, why he should not be punished for contempt. When the matter came up, on filing', an answer to the rule, upon his application the hearing was continued until the next term of the Court, and now pending that continuance he asks this Court for a writ of certiorari to remove the cause here.
We are satisfied the application is premature. There is no judgment or final determination of the case. It cannot be claimed that there is any lack of jurisdiction in the Second District Court over the subject matter, and until that Court acts in the matter we cannot tell whether it " has regularly pursued the authority of such tribunal or not." When that Court comes to act upon the case there may be nothing in its action of which this petitioner can complain, or would desire to have changed.
The petition states'that a suggestion from the judge of the Second District is one of the reasons- why .he invokes the action of this Court at this time. And although our Associate who is the judge of that District waives all objection to our reviewing the case, yet we are satisfied that it is our duty to refuse the writ. The petition is deified.
Lowe, C. J., concurs.
Boreman, J., did not participate in the deliberation upon this case.