Case Name: Guesdorf v. Gleason
Court: Iowa Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Iowa
Decision Date: 1860-06-28
Citations: 10 Iowa 495
Docket Number: 
Parties: Guesdorf v. Gleason.
Judges: 
Reporter: Iowa Reports
Volume: 10
Pages: 495–498

Head Matter:
Guesdorf v. Gleason.
1. CEKTirrcATE. TJncler section 2439 of the Code of 1851, the authentication of a transcript of a judgment rendered by a justice of tho peace in another state, should, to be admissible in evidence in the courts of this State, show that tho justice was, at the time of the rendering of the judgment, a justice of the county of which the officer making the certificate is clerk; also, that ho was an acting justice of the peace at the time the transcript purports to have been certified by him.
2. Same. A transcript, defective in its authentication, is not admissible • in evidence, coupled with another transcript of the same judgment, in which the authentication is correct as to the defect in the first, but which is defective in other respects. Lowe, C. J., dissenting.
Appeal from Delaware District Court.
Thursday, June 28.
PlaiNTIEE declares upon a judgment recovered before a justice of the peace, in the State of Ohio. The questions made, as will appear from the opinion, relate to the sufficiency of the authentications of the transcripts of said judgment. Judgment for defendant, and plaintiff appeals.
Souse, Drayton $ Watson for the appellant.
L. N. Ingalls and J. N. Ingalls for the appellee.

Opinion:
Wright, J.
Plaintiff offered in evidence two transcripts of the judgment declared on. The first was defective in that the certificate of the clerk failed to show that the justice rendering the judgment, and who purports to sign the official certificate accompanying the transciipt, was a justice within the county wherein the said officer was clerk of a court of record. This was necessary, under section 2439 of the Code. The authentication to the second transcript is defective, for the reason that it does not state that the person signing the official certificate of the justice, was at the time of signing the same an acting justice of the peace. It states that he was at the time of the rendition of the judgment, some three months prior to the date of the certificate, but it is silent as to his official character at the time he certifies to the transcript. (Code supra.)
Judgment affirmed.