Case ID: dc_4/html/0170-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "The CodRt,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John Allen v. E. T. Arguelles.
    A transcript of a judgment and proceedings of a justice of tlie peace in Pennsylvania, entered of record in a county court, is not a judgment of that court.
    Debt upon the judgment of the county court of Philadelphia county in Pennsylvania; plea, mil tiel record, and issue.
    The plaintiff produced a certificate under the seal of the county court, that a transcript of a judgment and proceedings before a justice of the peace, was filed and entered of record in that court.
    
      Mr. Lear, for the plaintiff.
    
      Mr. Wallach, for defendant.
   The CodRt,

(Thruston, J., doubting,)

was of opinioh that the judgment of the justice at his chambers, a transcript of which was filed and entered in the records of the county court, was not a judgment of the county court, although the prothonotary of that court was authorized by statute to issue a fieri facias thereon to bind lands.