Case ID: ga-app_11/html/0497-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Russell, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

3903.
    Traylor v. Epps, receiver.
   Russell, J.

1. An original petition and order, filed in the superior court, were not admissible in evidence on the trial of a case in a city court, over the objection that a certified copy of the petition and order should have been introduced. Whitaker v. State, ante, 208 (75 S. E. 259).

2. The highest and best evidence that a named person is a duly authorized trustee in bankruptcy is a certified copy of the order approving the bond given by him as such trustee; and parol evidence is not admissible to prove- that such a person is trustee in bankruptcy, over the objection that there is higher and better evidence.

Decided September 24, 1912.

Certiorari; from city court of Covington — Judge Wbaley. November 4, 1911.

P. W. Davis Jr., for plaintiff in error. C. G. King, contra.

8. The original minutes of a superior court are not admissible in the - trial of an action in a city court, over the objection that such minutes . are not primary evidence. Civil Code (1910), § 5753.

Judgment reversed.