Case ID: mart-os_2/html/0245-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

KERSHAM vs. COLLINS.
    Clerk's cer-titicate that there is a judgment, is no evidence of it.
    The plaintiff had judgment against the defendant, in the county of the Attakapas, and now brought a suit in this court on it. The defendant pleaded nut tiel record. On the trial, a certificate of the clerk of the court in which the judgment was had, was produced, attesting that such a judgment was rendered. He transmitted a certified copy of the execution which had issued returned nulla bona.
    Caune, for plaintiff.
    Porter, for defendant.
   By the Court.

The clerk cannot certify a judgment, in any other manner than by giving a copy of it. From the execution, which is properly shewn, the fact that a judgment was rendered, cannot be inferred.

Judgment for defendant.