Harris v. Barden
Supreme Court of Georgia
Debt on Judgment, in Burke Superior Court. Decision by Judge Holt, at November Term, 1857. This was an action of debt brought by Lewis F. Harris, surviving partner of the late firm of Harris & Reilly, against Alfred G. Barden and Amos P. Watkins, on a judgment recovered in Burke Inferior Court, 4th of January, 1843. The judgment was for $300, and interest thereon from 1st May, 1842, and cost of suit, &c.
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Debt on Judgment, in Burke Superior Court. Decision by Judge Holt, at November Term, 1857. This was an action of debt brought by Lewis F. Harris, surviving partner of the late firm of Harris & Reilly, against Alfred G. Barden and Amos P. Watkins, on a judgment recovered in Burke Inferior Court, 4th of January, 1843. The judgment was for $300, and interest thereon from 1st May, 1842, and cost of suit, &c. The action was brought upon a copy of the judgment, established in pursuance of the statute providing for the establishing of lost papers, the originals having been destroyed by the burning…
1Opinion of the Court
McDonald J.,
By the Court. delivering the opinion.
The record of the judgment on which the action in the Court below was founded, was tendered in evidence by the plaintiff’s counsel, and objected to on three grounds by defendant. The Court ruled it out on the ground, that, it did not contain the names of the jurors by whom the verdict was found. This decision of the presiding Judge, is assigned as error.
The evidence offered, was the record of an established copy of a judgment rendered by the Inferior Court of Burke county. The copy could not have been established regularly, without notice to…
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