45 So. 465 | Miss. | 1907
delivered the opinion of the court.
This was a declaration in ejectment, brought by the appellee, Batson, against the appellants, to recover certain land, to which there was a plea of not guilty. Batson claims title because of an execution issued by the circuit clerk on an enrolled and recorded judgment of the justice of the peace in favor of Batson against the appellants. In the course of the trial Batson, to make out his case, offered a transcript of the proceedings before the justice of the peace, enrolled in the circuit clerk’s office and recorded in the chancery clerk’s office. The solitary objection made in the court below on the trial was because there was no legal service upon the defendant in the justice of the peace court, for the reason that “ the record shows affirmatively that the said justice of the peace appointed one Wheat, a private person, to execute and return the writ, and there is no showing anywhere in the record that it was a ease of emergency, and that the constable, or sheriff, or a deputy sheriff, could not be had in time, and because the judgment purports to have been one for unliquidated damages, without showing that a writ of inquiry was had and verdict- thereon, and because the execution is one for costs and the costs are not itemized,” which objection was overruled.
It has been held that the book styled “ Docket of the Justice of the Peace ” contains the record of the proceedings of that
Affirmed.