Taylor v. Simmons
Supreme Court of Georgia
Evidence. Bonds. Officers. 'Revenue Collector. Before Judge Branham. Walker Superior Court. February Term, 1885. Simmons sued out an attachment against Taylor, based on a note and an account.
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Evidence. Bonds. Officers. 'Revenue Collector. Before Judge Branham. Walker Superior Court. February Term, 1885. Simmons sued out an attachment against Taylor, based on a note and an account. The account was “ to amt. pd. on distiller’s warehousing land for W. B. Taylor, he being joint security with W. B. Simmons on said bond, $151.50.” The defendant pleaded the general issue and set-off; also that the plaintiff was a partner in the firm of Rackley & Franklin, who gave the bond, and was jointly liable as a principal thereon; and that the plaintiff took part and aided in the illegal removal of…
1Opinion of the Court
Blandford, Justice.
The only question in this case which is necessary to be considered by this court is, whether a copy bond, certified by the United States collector of internal revenue to be a correct copy of a bond of file in his officfe, can be admitted in evidence, without more, by the courts of this state. There is no law of this state which will admit this paper in evidence, and no law of the United States, either by statute or the decisions of the courts of that government, which authorizes the admission of such a paper in evidence in the courts of this state. Neither the constitution…
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