Steele v. Hathway Lumber Co.

The plaintiff, the defendant in error, brought an action of the fourth class in the Municipal Court of Chicago against the defendant, here the plaintiff in error, on a judgment of a justice of the peace rendered in the State of Alabama. On a trial before the court a transcript of the said judgment before the justice of the peace was introduced in evidence and also certain statutes of Alabama; and the defendant offering no evidence the court entered judgment for the plaintiff for $47.80.

The transcript of the record introduced in evidence was properly authenticated, and we can see no good…