Davidson v. . Sharpe
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal from the- Superior Court of Law of Iredell County, at the special term in November, 1845, his Honor Judge Dick presiding. This action is debt on a bond, and the plea is a set-off of a larger sum, due on a bond of the plaintiff to the defendant.
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Appeal from the- Superior Court of Law of Iredell County, at the special term in November, 1845, his Honor Judge Dick presiding. This action is debt on a bond, and the plea is a set-off of a larger sum, due on a bond of the plaintiff to the defendant. On the trial, the defendant proved the latter bond as pleaded ; and the plaintiff then offered to give in evidence the transcript of the proceedings in a suit, instituted in a Court of Equity in the State of Tennessee, ■upon the bill of the present plaintiff against the defendant, in which the Court declared that the bond, now pleaded as a…
1Opinion of the CourtRuffin, C. J.
The Court thinks the defendant’s objection good, though not precisely on the ground taken by his Honor. The regularity of judicial proceedings in another State, according to the law of that State, cannot be enquired of here. If an attempt were made to prove that law here, what eAddence as high could be adduced as those proceedings themselves ? They are the solemn official acts of Judges, whose peculiar province it is to administer and expound the laws of their country. No witnesses could be more relied on for their knowledge of the subject, nor the sanctions under which their opinions would…
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