Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & St. Louis R. W. Co. v. Conway

Perkins, 0. J.

Suit commenced before a justice of the peace, by Conway against appellant, upon an account for work and labor done.

Judgment before the justice for Conway.

Appeal to the circuit court.

On the trial in the circuit court, after the plaintiff had closed his evidence, the defendant offered in evidence a transcript of garnishment proceedings, before a justice of the peace, in the State of Ohio, which showed a judgment in garnishment against the appellant at the suit of a creditor of Conway, for twenty-five dollars, and that the judgment had been paid into court, appropriated, etc.

The…