Peeples v. Peeples

Carlisle, Judge.

The defendant in error contends that the copy of the foreign judgment sued on and attached to the plaintiff's petition as an exhibit was not properly authenticated as provided for in Code § 38-627. In this connection he contends that that Code section requires that the attestation of the clerk appended to the copy of the judgment must be authenticated by the certificate of the chief justice, or presiding magistrate, of any court that has more than one judge, and that where, as shown by the affidavits introduced by the defendant in support of his motion for a summary judgment…