Case No. 213.

ALLEN v. ARGUELLES.

[4 Cranch, C. C. 170.]¹

Circuit Court, District of Columbia.

May Term. 1831.

FOREIGN JUDGMENT—JUSTICE OF 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. Pleanultiel 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.

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.

¹ [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]

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