Case Name: KERSHAM vs. COLLINS
Court: Superior Court of Louisiana
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1812
Citations: 2 Mart. (o.s.) 245
Docket Number: 
Parties: KERSHAM vs. COLLINS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Martin (Louisiana Term Reports)
Volume: 2
Pages: 245–245

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.