115 Ala. 427 | Ala. | 1896
This action, in which the appellee was plaintiff and the appellant defendant, was commenced before a justice of the peace, and was founded on two witness certificates, issued to the appellee by the
The certificate, which the statute requires the clerk of a court to issue to a witness, is prima facie evidence of what appears on its face — prima facie evidence of compensation to which the witness is entitled, and of the liability of the party in whose behalf it is certified he attended, to pay the amount specified.—Carville v. Reynolds, 9 Ala. 969 ; Marsh v. Br. Bank Mobile, 10 Ala. 57; Burns v. Howard, 68 Ala. 352. If the evidence introduced on the trial in the court below, was not in all respects consistent with the statements of the certificates, a question we do not deem it within our province to discuss, it certainly is not of that degree which would
Affirmed.