Case Name: KUHN v. MILLER'S ADMINISTRATORS
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1832-10
Citations: 1 Wright 127
Docket Number: 
Parties: KUHN v. MILLER’S ADMINISTRATORS.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases at law and in chancery, decided by the Supreme court of Ohio, during the years 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834.
Volume: 1
Pages: 127–128

Head Matter:
KUHN v. MILLER’S ADMINISTRATORS.
Justice’s transcript — clerk’s certificate — act of congress — nul tiel record.
The certificate of a clerk or prothonotary of the official character of a justice of the peace in another state, is receivable to authenticate the transcript of a judgment, though such attestation is not within the act of congress for the attestation of records.
Debt, on the judgment of a justice of the peace in Pennsylvania, Plea, nul tiel record, and issue.
The plaintiff, in support of the issue, offered the transcript of a judgment before a justice of the peace in Pennsylvania, certified by him, and attested by the prothonotarv, and the certificate of the presiding judge of the Court of Common Pleas.
Bostwick, for the defendant,
objected that the paper was not evidence, because it was not authenticated according to the act of congress.

Opinion:
BY THE COURT.
This transcript is not embraced within the act of congress. The president of the Court of Common Pleas has no authority to attest a justice's judgment. But this court has long been in the habit of receiving the prothonotary's or clerk's certificate as evidence of the justice's official character. We think the same rule should obtain as to these certificates, and admit the evidence.
Judgment for the plaintiff.
[A justice's court is not a court of record; Wilson v. Wickersham, 3 W. L. M. 621, 625.]