Davidson v. Murphy
Supreme Court of Connecticut
IN ERROR. This was an action of debt on judgment, brought originally before a justice of the peace, and appealed to the county court.
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IN ERROR. This was an action of debt on judgment, brought originally before a justice of the peace, and appealed to the county court. The declaration alleged, That by the consideration of a justice court, holden at New-Haven, on the 26th of September, 1836, by Joseph Bennett, Esq. then and ever after-wards until his death, a justice of the peace for New-Haven county, the plaintiff recovered judgment against the defendant, for the sum of 5 dollars, 75 cents, debt, and for the sum of 4 dollars, 23 cents, costs of suit, as by the files and execution of said justice court now ready in court to be…
1Opinion of the Court
Williams, Ch. J.
The plaintiff must claim, that the evidence offered by him was admissible, either because it is a record, or that this is a case in which record evidence may be dispensed with.
1. Is it a record? A record, in judicial proceedings, isa precise history of the suit from its commencement to its termination, including the conclusion of law thereon, drawn up by the proper officer, for the purpose of perpetuating the exact *218state of facts : or, in the language of Lord Coke, “ records are memorials or remembrances, in rolls of parchment, of the proceedings and acts of a court of…
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