Case Name: John Allen v. E. T. Arguelles
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1831-05
Citations: 4 Cranch 170
Docket Number: 
Parties: John Allen v. E. T. Arguelles.
Judges: (Thruston, J., doubting,)
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 4
Pages: 170–170

Head Matter:
John Allen v. E. T. Arguelles.
A transcript of a judgment and proceedings of a justice of tlie peace in Pennsylvania, entered of record in a county court, is not a judgment of that court.
Debt upon the judgment of the county court of Philadelphia county in Pennsylvania; plea, mil 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 the plaintiff.
Mr. Wallach, for defendant.

Opinion:
The CodRt,
(Thruston, J., doubting,)
was of opinioh 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.