Blodget v. Jordan
Supreme Court of Vermont
This .was an action of debt on judgment of a justice of the peace, rendered in Coos county, New-Hampshire. Plea, 1st, Nil debit and joinder. — 2d, That cause of .action in declaration did not accrue within six years, and joinder. — 3d, That the defendant appealed from the judgment of a justice in New-Hampshire; traversed. Plaintiff produced a copy of the record of the justice in New Hampshire, attested by the justice.
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This .was an action of debt on judgment of a justice of the peace, rendered in Coos county, New-Hampshire. Plea, 1st, Nil debit and joinder. — 2d, That cause of .action in declaration did not accrue within six years, and joinder. — 3d, That the defendant appealed from the judgment of a justice in New-Hampshire; traversed. Plaintiff produced a copy of the record of the justice in New Hampshire, attested by the justice. It was conceded that Brooks, the justice, was de fado justice, and that it was his signature. The defendant, to support the issue on his part, offered to show that the note on…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Williams, Ch. J.
— All the questions which arise in this case, are embraced in the following, viz: Whether the copy of the record of the judgment rendered by the justice,.in New Hampshire, w.as admissible in evidence ;• and whether the evi*585dence offered by the defendant was admissible; and this is to be decided by determining the effect of the judgment.— Both of these questions have heretofore been settled. In the case of Starkweather vs. Loomis, (2 Vt. Rep. 573) a certified copy of a record from a justice of the peace, in New-Hampshire, was considered…
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