Case Name: AZZARA et al. v. WALLER et al.
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Term
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1904-06-23
Citations: 88 N.Y.S. 1040
Docket Number: 
Parties: AZZARA et al. v. WALLER et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's New York Supplement
Volume: 88
Pages: 1040–1041

Head Matter:
AZZARA et al. v. WALLER et al.
(Supreme Court, Appellate Term.
June 23, 1904.)
1. Evidence—Coubt Recobds—Identification.
Court records are inadmissible in evidence without other proof of identification than the word of counsel offering them that they are the originals.
H1. See Evidence, vol. 20, Cent. Dig. § 1522%
Appeal from Municipal Court, Borough of Manhattan, Fourth District.
Action by Accursie Azzara and others against Louis Waller and others. From a Municipal Court judgment in favor of plaintiffs, defendants appeal. Reversed.
Argued before FREEDMAN, P. J., and MacLEAN and SCOTT, JJ.
Charles Frankel, for appellants.
Steuer & Hoffman, for respondents.

Opinion:
FREEDMAN, P. J.
To sustain the plaintiffs' cause of action herein, it was essential to show that a judgment had been obtained against these plaintiffs in favor of one Wilkins, which judgment establishes the ownership of a horse in Wilkins, which horse had been sold to the plaintiffs by these defendants under an implied warranty. In offering this record in evidence this is what occurred:
"Plaintiff's Counsel: Here is the record produced by the attendant of the Second Municipal Court, which I offer in evidence. Defendants' Counsel: Objected to, on the ground that it is immaterial, irrelevant, and incompetent, and not binding on these defendants. The Court: Objection overruled. Record allowed. Exception."
Under the decision in the case of Levy v. Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland (Sup.) 87 N. Y. Supp. 487, this was error.
Judgment reversed. New trial granted, with costs to appellants to abide the event.
MacLEAN, J., concurs.