Case Name: COOKE'S LESSEE vs. HUNTER & FARMER
Court: Tennessee Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Tennessee
Decision Date: 1809-06
Citations: 2 Overt. 113
Docket Number: 
Parties: COOKE'S LESSEE vs. HUNTER & FARMER.
Judges: 
Reporter: Tennessee Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 113–113

Head Matter:
COOKE'S LESSEE vs. HUNTER & FARMER.
Nashville
June 1809
When the bargainee holds under a general warranty, need not show one origin a title papers testified copies being sufficient.
Per Curiam. Where it is shewn to the court that the party claims under a deed with a general warranty, the law presumes the title papers to be in the hands of the warrantor;* and the warrantee is not required to produce them in evidence. Certified copies are sufficient-See 1 rep. 2.
White
who argued for the person offering the copy in evidence, relied on the practice in the superior courts.
The copy of the deed produced, was certified by A. B. deputy register for C. D. register.
Haywood for the defendants
objected that it ought to have been certified by the principal register, by his deputy, and not by the deputy, for he principal.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
This is a mere verbal criticism. The meaning is the same, either way. The general rule is that a person can do that by another, which he can do himself. The register might by his deputy certify; and whether it is signed thus, A. B. register by C. D. deputy register, or thus, C. D. deputy register for A. B. register is immaterial, for it means the same thing, viz. The acts of the principal by the deputy, and is good.