20 Ala. 298 | Ala. | 1852
The court below erred in allowing the record to go to the jury, as evidence of a judgment for the sum claimed in the declaration, against the objection of the defendant. The plea was mil iiel record, and the paper offered, although regularly certified, contains no judgment against the defendant in the suit in North Carolina. That which purports to be a judgment, is, at most, but a memorandum of the clerk, and not the solemn act of the court, which finally declared and adjudged the rights of the parties in the suit to which it pertains. Tombecbee Bank v. Godbold, 3 Stew. 240.
It is insisted, however, that this may be the form in which judgments are regularly entered in the courts of North Caro
If the memorandum in the record is, in fact, regarded as a good judgment entry in the State of North Carolina, it might be so averred in the declaration, and the laws or practice of that State would be evidence, when rightly presented, to establish it.
The court not only erred in allowing the record to go to the jury, but also in refusing the charge asked, and giving the one excepted to.
Let the judgment be reversed, and the cause remanded.