Ayres v. Wm. Deering & Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

Wm. Deering & Co., a corporation, brought an action against F. J. Ayres upon a judgment previously rendered in Nebraska. It recovered, and the defendant prosecutes error.

Complaint is made of the admission in evidence of a copy of the foreign judgment, which the defendant claims was not properly authenticated. Whether the authentication was sufficient or not is immaterial, for the answer admitted that the judgment had been actually rendered, but denied its validity.

The essential facts are undisputed. The action in which the Nebraska judgment…