Kingston Carriage Co. v. Hutton

The plaintiff brought suit in the court below, alleging in writing that it was a domestic corporation. The defendant did not appear or plead. The plaintiff’s manager testi*191fled it was incorporated, and proved its claim against the defendant, for which judgment was rendered; from which judgment the defendant now appeals, claiming that it should be reversed because, he having failed to appear or plead, the law imposed upon the plaintiff the burthen of proving every fact, evidence of which was necessary to justify the entry of judgment, by the best obtainable proof, and that oral testimony as to…