Case Name: ALLEN v. ARGUELLES
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1831-05
Citations: 1 F. Cas. 444
Docket Number: 
Parties: ALLEN v. ARGUELLES.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 1
Pages: 444–444

Head Matter:
Case No. 213.
ALLEN v. ARGUELLES.
[4 Cranch, C. C. 170.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
May Term. 1831.
Foreign Judgment — Justice op the Peace.
A transcript of a judgment and proceedings •of a justice of the peace in Pennsylvania, entered of record in a county court, is not a judgment of that court.
At law. Debt [by John Allen against E. T. Arguelles] upon the judgment of the county court of Philadelphia county, in Pennsylvania. Plea nul tiel record, and issue. The plaintiff produced a certificate, under the seal of the county court, that a transcript of a judgment and proceedings before a justice of the peace was filed and entered of record in that court.
Mr. Lear, for plaintiff.
Mr. Wallach, for defendant.
[Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]

Opinion:
THE COURT,
(THRUSTON, [ Circuit Judge,]
doubting,)
was of opinion that the judgment of the justice at his chambers, a transcript of which was filed and entered in the records of the county court, was not a judgment of the county court, although the prothonotary of that court was authorized by statute to issue a fieri facias thereon to bind lands.