Bissell v. Edwards
Supreme Court of Connecticut
MOTION for a nmv trial. This was an action on Hip ease. Tlie cause was iiif'd before the Superior Court, in St yinnhcr, 1812 ; and a verdict was found for the plaintiff. On the trial, the plaintiff offered in evidence, the deposition of one John Roberts, jun, of Pullney, in the state of Ferment. The defendant, for the purpose of shewing the incom-petrncy of the witness, offered to introduce the record of a judgment, rendered in Vermont, before Noah Sabin, jun.
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MOTION for a nmv trial. This was an action on Hip ease. Tlie cause was iiif'd before the Superior Court, in St yinnhcr, 1812 ; and a verdict was found for the plaintiff. On the trial, the plaintiff offered in evidence, the deposition of one John Roberts, jun, of Pullney, in the state of Ferment. The defendant, for the purpose of shewing the incom-petrncy of the witness, offered to introduce the record of a judgment, rendered in Vermont, before Noah Sabin, jun. Esq. a justice of the peace for the county of Windham, on the 21st day of November, 1796 ; whereby it appeared, that the witness was…
1Opinion of the CourtSwift, J.
The question in this case, is, whether the copy of a record, from a justice of the peace, in the state of Vermont, certified by him, as justice of the peace, is admissible evidence, in a court in this state ? The records of courts, from a neighbouring state, must be proved according to the *366rules of the common law, or the act of congress ■ But this is conformable to neither; and is merely in the form required to make it evidence in that state. The act of congress requires, that the records, and judicial proceedings of courts of any state, shall be proved, by the attestation of the clerk, and…
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