Justices of the Inferior Court v. House
Supreme Court of Georgia
Mandamus. Talbot. Tried before Judge Powers, March-Term, 1856. Abner M. House alleged in his petition for Mandamust that he had, prior thereto, entered into a' certain contract, with the Justices of the Inferior Court of Talbot County, in ¡which it was agreed that he should build a lattice bridge for the public use, over Lazar Creek, in said county, and that they should pay him the sum of f 100, in advance, and the ¡Value of the Work, less that sum when finished.
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Mandamus. Talbot. Tried before Judge Powers, March-Term, 1856. Abner M. House alleged in his petition for Mandamust that he had, prior thereto, entered into a' certain contract, with the Justices of the Inferior Court of Talbot County, in ¡which it was agreed that he should build a lattice bridge for the public use, over Lazar Creek, in said county, and that they should pay him the sum of f 100, in advance, and the ¡Value of the Work, less that sum when finished. It is further alleged, that the bridge was built according to the terms of the contract; that payment therefor had been demanded of…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Benning, J.
delivering the opinion.
House, the defendant in error, wished to use as evidence, *332what, as he insisted, were certain orders of the Inferior Court; and to prove that they were the orders of that Court, he offered in evidence a book as the minutes of that Court, on which book they were found entered.
To the admission of this book in evidence, the plaintiffs in error objected, and gave two reasons for the objection: first, that the assumed orders were not signed by the Court; secondly, that the book did not show the place of meeting of the Court.
This objection being made,…
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