Barelli v. Lytle
Supreme Court of Louisiana
from tbe Fifth District Court of New Orleans, Buchanan, J. cited Baine ■v. Wilson, 18 La. 64. Edmonson v. Mississippi and Alabama Railroad Company, 13 La. 285. Starkie on Evidence, vol. 3, p. 1252.
1Opinion of the Court
The judgment ,of the court {King, J. absent,) was pronounced by
Slidell, J.
At the trial of this cause the plaintiff offered in evidence the return of a commission to take testimony, addressed to any judge or justice of the peace at Port Lawrence in the State of Texas. The defendant objected to the introduction of this evidence upon the ground, among others, that the certificate of the Governor of Texas, dated June 29th 1848, shows that J. R. Baker was a justice of the peace on that day, but does not show that said Baker was a justice of the peace on the 5th June, 1848, at which time the…
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