17 Tex. 275 | Tex. | 1856
It does not appear by the bill of exceptions, upon what ground the record of the judgment recovered in Mississippi was excluded. But it is insisted for the appellee that it was rightly excluded, because, it is said, it does not show a final judgment, on which an action will lie.
It appears to be the decree of a Court exercising Chancery jurisdiction in the State of Mississippi. And it is held that a decree of a Court of Chancery is within the Constitution and Act of Congress, respecting the mode of authentication, and the effect of the records and judicial proceedings of the Courts of the respective States, when offered in evidence in the Courts of any other State. (Cow. and Hill’s Notes on Phil. Ev., Part 2, Sec. 58 ; Barbour v. Watts, 2 Marsh. (Ky.), R. 292.) In order to determine the character and effect of the decree, it is
As a jury was waived, and there was no plea under which evidence could have been introduced, to countervail the legal effect of the judgment offered in evidence by the plaintiff, we might reverse, and render such judgment as the Court below should have rendered. But the plaintiff avers that he is entitled to interest by the laws of Mississippi; and as there was no evidence offered to sustain the averment, the evidence to establish the principal debt having excluded it, it is manifest we could not give interest; and the effect of giving judgment here upon the case as presented by the record, would be to defeat a right which the plaintiff may have to the recovery of interest. The judgment will therefore be reversed, and the cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded.