Farber v. Conti

2 Citing cases

  1. Rosado v. Bridgeport Roman Catholic Diocesan

    77 Conn. App. 690 (Conn. App. Ct. 2003)   Cited 15 times
    Recognizing that Federal Rule 5(d) "creates a presumption that all discovery material will be available to the public because they will be filed in court. . . ."

    A clerk is therefore "a mere arm of the court to perform a portion of the acts necessary to be done by the court, but which are not of a judicial nature." Farber v. Conti, 84 Conn. 458, 462, 80 A. 581 (1911). Pursuant to those principles, a statutory provision regarding the ministerial duty of clerks to store inactive files in a place of safekeeping cannot be construed as granting the court inherent authority and discretion to create a new file for the purpose of addressing the Times' application.

  2. State v. Rowe

    186 A.2d 809 (Conn. App. Ct. 1962)   Cited 3 times

    Hillhouse v. Dunning, 7 Conn. 139, 141. Clerks act under the court's orders or rules because their clerical acts are subject to the court's orders or rules. See Farber v. Conti, 84 Conn. 458, 461. In the instant case, this court had no jurisdiction over the defendant's person prior to June 22, 1961, because the defendant did not sign the plea of guilty, and neither appeared physically before the court nor signed the written appearance.