Case Name: Marvin L. BAINUM, Petitioner and Respondent, v. J. Rex MACKAY et al., Appellants
Court: Utah Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Utah
Decision Date: 1964-04-28
Citations: 15 Utah 2d 295
Docket Number: No. 9975
Parties: Marvin L. BAINUM, Petitioner and Respondent, v. J. Rex MACKAY et al., Appellants.
Judges: McDonough, callister and WADE, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Utah Reports, Second Series
Volume: 15
Pages: 295–296

Head Matter:
391 P.2d 436
Marvin L. BAINUM, Petitioner and Respondent, v. J. Rex MACKAY et al., Appellants.
No. 9975.
Supreme Court of Utah.
April 28, 1964.
McBroom & Hyde, Salt Lake City, for petitioner and respondent.
Brayton, Lowe & Hurley, Salt Lake City, for appellants.

Opinion:
HENRIOD, Chief Justice.
Appeal 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.
Appeal 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.
We 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 able simply for that purpose. This type of judgment is appealable. We raised the jurisdictional question sua sponte.
McDonough, callister and WADE, JJ., concur.
CROCKETT, T., concurs in the result.
. 4 Moore's Federal Practice 1825 and cases cited therein.
. 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.