Case Name: Baldwin against Prouty
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1816-10
Citations: 13 Johns. 430
Docket Number: 
Parties: Baldwin against Prouty.
Judges: 
Reporter: Johnson's Reports
Volume: 13
Pages: 430–430

Head Matter:
Baldwin against Prouty.
evWenoeffiofeDa vAreTbefore0^ p“eaiee wi,o th¡s thecepadrtydftofor Srtbethj?udteic^ tSe original mióudgmént,in the hand-writing-of proofsto'veHfy those minute*,
IN ERROR, on certiorari to a justice’s court.
The plaintiff in error, who was defendant in the court below, pleaded by way of set- off, a judgment recovered by him against the plaintiff below, before another justice.; and the plaintiffhaVing, at the trial in the court below, proved his demand, the defendant jn support of his set-off oiféred to prove, that the justice before whom the iudsment in his favour was obtained, was dead; J ° . « . :an. a'so offered the original minutes of that judgment in the hand-writing of the justice, with proof to Verify those minutes; but this evidence was excluded, and judgment was given in the court below for the defendant itt error for the whole amount of his claim. ■

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The judgment was a good ground of sef-offj, and the evidence offered of the existence of that judgment was the best that the nature of the case would admit. The justice, therefore, erred in rejecting the evidence, and the judgment ought to be reversed.
Judgment reversed.