Gray v. McNeal
Supreme Court of Georgia
Attachment, in Talbot Superior Court. Tried before Judge Iverson. September Term, 1852. The attachment in this case was sued out upon judgments rendered in a Justice’s Court. Upon the trial, the plaintiff below, William McNeal, introduced the Justice’s docket, showing a memorandum of the judgments sued on. He also proved that the defendant below resided in the District at the time of the rendition of the judgment.
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Attachment, in Talbot Superior Court. Tried before Judge Iverson. September Term, 1852. The attachment in this case was sued out upon judgments rendered in a Justice’s Court. Upon the trial, the plaintiff below, William McNeal, introduced the Justice’s docket, showing a memorandum of the judgments sued on. He also proved that the defendant below resided in the District at the time of the rendition of the judgment. Thomas Gray, by his counsel, demurred to the evidence, on the ground that a Justice’s Court, being a Court of limited jurisdiction, the plaintiff should prove the proceedings prior…
1Opinion of the Court
*426 By the Court.
Warner, J.
delivering the opinion.
The judgments obtained in the Justice’s Court, which were offered in evidence, in support of the plaintiff’s cause of action, were objected to, on the ground that it did not appear on the face of the proceedings that the Court rendering the judgment, had jurisdiction of the person of the defendant.
[1.] It is a well settled principle of the Common Law, that the judgments of Courts of special and limited jurisdiction, must show upon their face, such facts as are necessary to give to the Court rendering such judgment, jurisdiction of the person of…
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