Tharpe v. Pearce

Foreign judgment. Evidence. Before Judge Martin. Muscogee superior court. May term, 1891. Pearce sued out attachment against Tharpe, returnable to a magistrate’s court of Muscogee county, upon the ground of the non-residence of Tharpe. He obtained a judgment in that court. Tharpe’s certiorari was overruled, and be excepted. The errors alleged in the petition for certiorari (which was not substantially controverted by the answer of the magistrate) were ; Upon the trial plaintiff introduced as a witness one Gibson and'offered to prove by him, orally, that in 1886 he was a justice of the peace…