Brown v. Pearson

Naptox, Judge,

delvti&red the opinion of the Court.

This was an appeal from a judgment obtained before a justice of the peace, on a note signed by defendant and one W. G. Brown. On the trial in the Circuit Court, the defendant, Felix Brown, offered to read, and did read, an extract from *160the docket certified by the justice, to the following purpose: “The aforesaid W. G. Brown was released from the said note by M. Pearson, agent for said Joseph Pearson, plaintiff, on the day of trial.” Whereupon the court was called upon to instruct the jury, that if they believed from the evidence that the…