Case ID: tenn_2/html/0236-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Overton, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

LAWRENCE & LAWRENCE vs. JAS. ROBERTS.
    Rogersville
    
      May 1814
    In equity,
    A record of a judgment of another state, is prima facie evidence of the justice of the demand.
   Overton, J.

delivered the following opinion of the court.

This bill was filed to injoin a judgment recovered in Tennessee, upon the transcript of a record from the state of North Carolina.

The record of a recovery made in any state in the union, is certainly prima facie evidence to the courts of every other state, that the party is entitled to receive that which was adjudged to him ; and this presumption must always stand until by proof, it is shown that such recovery was unjust. No proof of this description has been given on this occasion, therefore the bill is dismissed.