Legal Opinion

Prentiss v. Holbrook

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1852PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Error to Wayne Circuit Court.

1Opinion of the Court

By the Court, Johnson, J.

This cause was originally commenced in the County Court, and elected from that Court to the Circuit Court for trial.

Three causes are assigned for error:

First. That the Court below erred in admitting the original files and journal entries, with the testimony of the clerk, as evidence to prove the judgment rendered in the County Court in the case of Prentiss vs. Cicotte.

Secondly. In charging the jury that such files and journal entries were sufficient proof of the judgment, and

Thirdly. In charging the jury that said judgment was a bar to the plaintiff’s right of…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Carver v. JacksonSupreme Court of the United States · 1830

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Waldo v. WaldoMichigan Supreme Court · 1883
  2. Hearn v. AyresSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1906
  3. Goebel v. StevensonMichigan Supreme Court · 1876
  4. Sanders v. PeckCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1898
  5. Morgan v. HartWashington Supreme Court · 1915

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