Baker v. Brown

This was an appeal to the circuit court of McDonough county, from a judgment of the county court, allowing a claim against the estate of Montgomery, and in favor of Brown. Upon the trial, Brown offered, in evidence, a transcript of a judgment in favor of Brown and against Montgomery, rendered in the supreme court of the State of Dew York in 1829, attested by the clerk and the seal of the court of appeals of that state as an original record of the court, and annexed to which was the form, of a certificate of the chief justice of said court, without date or signatmre. This transcript was…