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

Case No. 213.
    ALLEN v. ARGUELLES.
    [4 Cranch, C. C. 170.]
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    May Term. 1831.
    Foreign Judgment — Justice op the Peace.
    A transcript of a judgment and proceedings •of a justice of the peace in Pennsylvania, entered of record in a county court, is not a judgment of that court.
    At law. Debt [by John Allen against E. T. Arguelles] upon the judgment of the county court of Philadelphia county, in Pennsylvania. Plea nul 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 plaintiff.
    Mr. Wallach, for defendant.
    
      
       [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]
    
   THE COURT,

(THRUSTON, [ Circuit Judge,]

doubting,)

was of opinion 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.