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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

McFARLAND v. FRICKS.
    May 19, 1896. Argued at the last term.
    Action on judgment. Before Judge Turnbull. Walker superior court. February term, 1895.
    Tbe petition alleged an indebtedness upon a judgment obtained in the chancery court of Hamilton county, Tennessee. 'When tbe transcript of tbe proceeding in which tbe judgment was rendered was offered in evidence, it was objected to on tbe ground that it failed to show that tbe chancellor bad signed tbe judgment or tbe minutes of tbe court. Tbe transcript was certified in accordance with tbe act of Congress applying to certified transcripts from courts of other States. A witness testified that tbe practice in Tennessee is, that no judgment or decree is signed by either the attorney or tbe chancellor or judge, but that tbe decree or judgment is spread on the minutes, and on tbe morning of tbe succeeding day tbe judge or chancellor signs the minutes of tbe preceding day, and at tbe end of the term signs tbe minutes of the entire term. He knew of no statute or decision requiring tbe chancellor to sign tbe minutes, or invalidating the decree or judgment when there is a failure so to do. The objection was overruled.
   Lumpkin, J.

Where a transcript of the record of a decree purporting to have been rendered by a court of record of another State has been duly certified under the act of Congress, embodied in section 3830 of the Code, this is sufficient evidence of the validity of such decree, although it does not appear to have been signed by the chancellor. Nor, in such case, is it at all essential to show that he signed the minutes of the court by which such decree was rendered. Judgment affirmed.

17. II. Payne and Copeland & J achson, for plaintiff in error. R. M. W. Grlenn, contra.