Case ID: ohio-ch_1/html/0127-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

KUHN v. MILLER’S ADMINISTRATORS.
    Justice’s transcript — clerk’s certificate — act of congress — nul tiel record.
    The certificate of a clerk or prothonotory of the official character of a justice of the peace in' another state, is receivable to authenticate the transcript of a judgment, though such attestation is not within the act of congress for this attestation of record.
    Debt, on the judgment of a justice of the peace in Pennsylvania. Plea nul tiel record, and issue.
    The plaintiff, in support of the issue, offered the transcript of a judgment before a justice of the peace in Pennsylvania, certified by him, and attested by the prothonotary, and the certificate of the presiding judge of the' Court of Common Pleas.
    Bostwick, for the defendant,
    objected that the paper was not evidence, because it was not authenticated according to the act of congress.
   By the Court.

This transcript is not embraced within the act of congress. The president of the Court of Common Pleas has no authority to attest a justice’s judgment. But this court has long been in the habit of receiving the prothonotary’s or clerk’s certificate as evidence of the justice’s official character. We think the same rule should obtain as to these certificates, and admit the evidence.

Judgment for the plaintiff.