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Armstrong v. Levy

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided October 15, 1839PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Western Dist. ATPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, FOR THE PARISH OF CONCORDIA, JUDGE COOLEY, THEN OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, PRESIDING. In this case, the plaintiff obtained from the district judge presiding an order of seizure and sale, on a record and judgment in favor of the plaintiff against the defendants in the state of Mississippi, for the sum of three thousand three hundred and twenty-eight dollars and twenty cents.

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Western Dist. ATPEAL FROM THE COURT OF THE NINTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, FOR THE PARISH OF CONCORDIA, JUDGE COOLEY, THEN OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT, PRESIDING. In this case, the plaintiff obtained from the district judge presiding an order of seizure and sale, on a record and judgment in favor of the plaintiff against the defendants in the state of Mississippi, for the sum of three thousand three hundred and twenty-eight dollars and twenty cents. The record is made out, and purports to be certified according to the act of Congress, to make it authentic in the several states of the Union. From…

1Opinion of the Court

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delivered the opinion of the court.

The defendant seeks the reversal of the judgment on an assignment of error apparent on the face of the record ; it is sufficient to examine one of them.

The judgment is one obtained at chambers, rendering that of a court of an adjacent state executory in this, and ordering a writ of seizure and sale therein. The error assigned is, that the record of the court of the sister state is not certified in the manner prescribed by the law of Congress, and required by the Code of Practice, the clerk’s certificate not being authenticated by the seal of the…

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