Gibson v. Cook

This was a case tried in the superior court on an appeal from a justice’s court. There was with the record sent up from the justice’s court no certificate of the magistrate or any other evidence that'the appellant had paid the costs which had accrued in the trial of the case. The appellant offered parol evidence tending to show that the costs accruing in the justice’s court had been paid, *818and that the magistrate had signed a certificate to this effect. The court refused to admit this evidence. The appellee then made a motion to dismiss the appeal, on the ground that there was with the record…