Facey v. Fuller

Campbell J.:

Fuller sued Facey upon a judgment purporting to have been rendered in his favor, against said Facey, by one D. C. Morehouse, Justice of the Peace. The judgment was proved by the certificate of Albert L. Porter, ■Justice of the Peace, who certified a transcript from Morehouse’s docket, stating- the docket and judgment to bé under his possession and control.

It was objected that the evidence of Porter’s being a Justice of the Peace was insufficient, because proof was made by an ordinary witness, and not by the county clerk, or other person having official knowledge. The proof was…