Jennings v. Newman

Spencer, County Judge.

Upon the trial before the justice, claimant offered in evidence a copy, certified by the deputy *283clerk under the county seal, of the notice of claim filed in the clerk’s office. This was objected to by the defendant on the ground that the certificate purported to be made by A. E. Baxter, county clerk, while it was signed by the deputy clerk.

This objection was properly overruled. The certificate was in fact made by an officer authorized by law to make it (1 Statutes at Large, 349, sec. 58), and was duly authenticated by the county seal. It was, in effect, the act of the…