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John J. Mason et al." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Pleasants, J.\nThis was an action on the case originally brought by appellee, Mason, together with Charles B. Murphy and Daniel Murphy, declaring as executors and trustees of the estate of Daniel Murphy, deceased, against appellants for wrongfully taking and carrying away the corn grown in the year 1875, upon certain premises demised by the plaintiffs to one Clark and subject to their lien for rent, whereby said rent was wholly lost.\nAn amended declaration was afterwards filed by leave of the court, substituting appellees Murphy and Stuart for said Charles B. and Daniel Murphy as parties plaintiff, alleging .a lease by the original plaintiffs as the acting trustees of said estate, and the wrong and injury to appellees as their successors.\nA plea of not guilty having been filed and a jury waived, the court, upon trial had, found the issue for the plaintiffs, assessed their damages and rendered judgment therefor; to which defendants duly excepted and now bring the case here by appeal.\nThe record shows that having introduced evidence tending to prove the other facts alleged in the amended declaration, the plaintiffs, to prove the succession of said Frederick Murphy and John C. Stuart as trustees, offered what was claimed to be an exemplification of certain orders and proceedings of the court of chancery of the Province of Ontario, Canada, making or confirming their appointment as such successors, which was received by the court against the objection of defendants; and the only question we deem it necessary to determine is the adinissability of the document so offered and received.\nThis depends upon the sufficiency or insufficiency of its authentication, which was as follows:\n\u201c In Chancery: Between John James Mason and Daniel S. Murphy, plaintiffs, and James Stevenson, Joseph R. Cherrier and others, defendants.\n\u201c I hereby certify that the foregoing are true copies, respectively, of (1) the decree made in the cause bearing date the 17th day of October, A. D. 1872; (2) so much of the report in this cause made in pursuance of such decree, and bearing date the fifth day of October, A. D. 1877, as relates to the appointment of a trustee in the room and stead of the said Joseph R. Cherrier; (3) an order made in this cause, bearing-date the 13tn day of February, A. D. 1877; and, (4) an order made in this cause, bearing date the 25 th day of June, A. D.1878.\n[seal] \u201c Witness my hand and the seal of the court of chancei-y, this third day of January, A. D. 1879.\n\u201c Geo. S. Holmested, Reg.\u201d\n\u201c (Title as above) I, John Godfrey Spragge, of the City of Toronto, in the Province of Ontario, the chancellor of the court of chancery, for the Province of Ontario, do hereby certify that George S. Holmested, who has signed the certificate hereunto annexed, is the registrar of the said court of chancery and is a proper person to certify copies of the decrees, orders and reports, made, issued or filed in the said court.\n\u201cWitness my hand, this third day of January, A. D. 1878.\n\u201c J. G. Spbagge, C.\u201d\n\u201c I, George S. Holmested, of the city of Toronto, in the county of York, registrar of the court of chancery for the Province of Ontario, do hereby certify that John Godfrey Spragge, who signed the certificate above set forth, is the presiding Judge of the said court of chancery.\n\u201c Geo. S. Holmested, Registrar.\u201d\nA judgment, when it is either the foundation of an action or material to any issue therein, must be proved according to the rules applicable to the proof of other like facts, and hence the best evidence of which the nature of the case admits must be produced. It would therefore consist, primarily, of the record itself, which is usually produced when the proof is made in the court where the record remains; but when in another, from necessity resort must be had to secondary evidence of its contents, which is ordinarily a copy. But whether the record itself or a copy, it must be verified as such under the sanction of an oath, or of some other high authority such as the law respects no less, by which is meant a sufficient seal. In the case of a copy, an oath in direct verification of it or of the signature and authority of the person certifying to it, is dispensed with only when the attestation is under such a seal as proves itself, that is, which the court of its own knowledge without other proof, recognizes as genuine.\nSuch are either great seals of State: Lincoln v. Battelle, 6 Wend. 484; Griswold v. Pitcairn, 2 Conn. 85; Church v. Hubbart, 2 Cranch, 228; 1 Greenl. Ev. \u00a7 4; 1 Wharton on Ev. \u00a7 319; Story on Confl. of Laws, \u00a7 643, and cases there cited; or those of other interritorial courts and officers authorized by law to have them; Delafield v. Hand, 3 Johns, 310; 1 Greenl. Ev. \u00a7 4; 1 Wharton on Ev. \u00a7 321; and under the latter are included those of tribunals and officers established and acting under the laws of nations,\u2014as courts of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction and Hotaries Public\u2014which are regarded as domestic to all civilized States; 1 Greenl. Ev. \u00a7 5; 1 Wharton on Ev. \u00a7 320; Story on Confl. of Laws, \u00a7 643.\nThe law accords this recognition to the two classes of seals above mentioned, as it safely may, upon the presumption of their notoriety. Delafield v. Hand, 3 Johns. 314; Gilbert\u2019s Law of Ev. 16.\nIt is otherwise, however, with respect to those of foreign courts, which must therefore be proved alitmrle. Henry v. Adey, 3 East, 221; Simonten v. Goddard, 9 Mod. 66; Delafield v. Hand, 3 Johns. 314; Gardere v. Columbian Ins. Co. 7 Johns. 519; Packard v. Hill, 7 Cow. 434, re-affirmed in 2 Wend. 411; Lincoln v. Battelle, 6 Wend. 484; DeSobry v. DeLaistre, 2 Harr. & Johns. 191; Church v. Hubbart, 2 Cranch. 228, and other cases cited in the notes to 1 Wharton on Ev. \u00a7 320; 1 Greenl. Ev. \u00a7\u00a7 488,514; Story\u2019s Confl. of Laws, \u00a7 643; 2 Phill. on Ev. (4th Am. Ed.) Chap. 5, \u00a7 4, p. 416 et seq.; and in note to 8 Andrews v. Herriott, 4 Cow. 526.\nThe usual and proper, if not the only, modes of autkentica-\" ting foreign judgments, as stated by Ch. J. Marshall in Church v. Hubbart supra, and recognized by the other authorities; 1 Grenl. \u00a7 514, and Story\u2019s Confl. \u00a7 641, are either by an exemplification under the great seal, or by a copy proved to be true by a witness who has personally compared it with the original record in the proper custody, or by the certificate of an officer authorized by law, which certificate must itself be properly authenticated, by proving the signature of the certifying officer and the genuineness of the seal affixed; 3 Johns. 310; 7 Id. 519; 4 Cow. 526, note 8; 6 Wend. 484; 4 Rawle, 171; 1 Paine\u2019s R. 613; 2 Phill. Ev. supra; or, if the court has no seal, by proof of that fact and of the signature and authority of the certifying officer. Packard v. Hill, 7 Cow. 434, and 2 Wend. 411; Talcott v. The Delaware Ins. Co. 2 Wash. C. C. Rep. 449; Buttrick v. Allen, 8 Mass. 273.\nIn the case at bar the judgment was not so proved. The paper offered as a copy was not verified by an oath or such a seal as prov\u00e9d itself, nor was there any proof aliunde of its genuineness, or'of the signature or official character and authority of either of the persons- certifying.\nIt was. suggested by counsel that the authentication was sufficient under our statute (R. S. 1874, p. 490, \u00a7 13), but we hold otherwise, for the reason, if it were in other respects sufficient, which we do not decide, that the certificate of the registrar does not contain a statement that \u201c he is the keeper of the records of the court,\u201d as required by \u00a7 16 of the same act.\nThis document, then, was not admissible as evidence of the judgment relied on, and since the record shows no other tending to prove that appellees, Murphy and Stuart, or either of them, ever had possession of the demised premises, or of the corn in question, or any right or interest therein, it follows that they were misjoined as plaintiffs, and this was fatal to the action. Murphy v. Orr, 32 Ill. 492.\nThe judgment of the Circuit Court is therefore reversed, and the cause remanded.\nBeversed and remanded.", "type": "majority", "author": "Pleasants, J." } ], "attorneys": [ "Mr. A. E. Harding and Mr: R. S. MoIlduff, for appellants;", "Messrs. Wallace and Tebby, for appellees;" ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "Hugh Thompson et al. v. John J. Mason et al.\n1. Foreign judgment\u2014How proved.\u2014A judgment, when it is the foundation of an action, or material to any issue therein, must be proved, according to the rules applicable to the proof of other like facts, and hence the best evidence is the record itself; but where, from the necessity of the case, a copy of the record is offered as evidence, it must be verified as such under the sanction of an oath pr of some other high authority, such as the law respects no less. So, where the copy offered in evidence was not verified by an oath, or such a seal attached as proved itself, and there was no proof aliunde of its genuineness, or of the signature or official character and authority of the persons certifying it, it was not admissible in evidence.\n2. Certificate that registrar was keeper of records.\u2014This copy was inadmissible, for the further reason that the certificate of the registrar does not contain a statement that \u201c he is the keeper of the records of the court, \u2019 \u2019 as required by our statute.\nAppeal from the Circuit Court of Livingston county; the Hon. Owen T. Reeves, Judge, presiding.\nOpinion filed November 1, 1879.\nMr. A. E. Harding and Mr: R. S. MoIlduff, for appellants;\nthat though the master\u2019s report, and the order confirming the appointment of a successor to M., both recite the fact of M. being a trustee, those recitals are not proper evidence of such appointment, cited 1 Greenleaf\u2019s Ev .\u00a7 511; Winans v. Dunham, 5 Wend. 47; Wilson v. Corrine, 2 Johns. 280. Under a plea of not guilty, in an action on the case, the defendant may put the plaintiff on proof of the whole charge, and may give evidence of any justification or excuse: Champaign v. McMurray, 76 Ill. 353.\nAs to proof, of judgments and foreign records: 1 Greenleaf\u2019s Ev. \u00a7 511; 2 Phillip\u2019s Ev. 138; Church v. Hubbart, 2 Cranch, 238; Henry v. Adey, 3 East, 221; Buchanan v. Rucker, 1 Camp. 63; Flindt v. Atkins, 3 Camp. 215; Alivon v. Furnival, 1 Cromp. M. & R. 281; Delafield v. Hand, 3 Johns. 310; Den v. Vreelandt, 2 Halst. 352; Dunlop v. Waldo, 6 N. H. 453; Pickard v. Bailey, 6 Foster, 152; Griswold v. Pitcairn, 2 Conn. 90; Andrews v. Herriott, 4 Cow. 526; Lincoln v. Battelle, 6 Wend. 484; Gardere v. Col. Ins. Co. 7 Johns. 519; Chew v. Keck, 4 Rawle, 171; Packard v. Hill, 2 Wend. 411; Buttrick v. Allen, 8 Mass. 273; Cavan v. Stewart, 1 Stark, 525; Black v. Braybrook, 2 Stark, 6; Thompson v. Stewart, 3 Conn. 171; Vandervoort v. Col. Ins. Co. 2 Caines, 155; Story\u2019s Conflict of Laws, \u00a7 531.\nAs to the seal of a foreign court: Delafield v. Hand, 3 Johns. 310; Griswold v. Pitcairn, 2 Conn. 90; DeSobry v. DeLaistre, 2 Harr. & J. 192; Ex parte Povall, 3 Leigh, 816; Story\u2019s Conflict of Laws, \u00a7 530; 2 Phillips\u2019 Ev. 436; 1 Greenleaf\u2019s Ev. \u00a7 4; Lincoln v. Batelle, 6 Wend, 484; Gardere v. Col. Ins. Co. 7 Johns. 519; Chew v. Keck, 4 Rawle, 171; Catlett v. Pacific Ins. Co. 1 Caines, 613; Thompson v. Stewart, 3 Conn. 171; Yeaton v. Fry, 5 Cranch, 335; Dunlop v. Waldo, 6 N. H. 453; Anthon\u2019s Nisi Prius, 40.\nThe whole record must be exemplified: 2 Phillip\u2019s Ev. 344; Edmiston v. Schwartz, 13 Serg. & R. 135; Vance v. Reardon, 2 Nott & McC. 299; Dismukes v. Musgrove, 8 Martin, 375; Ingham v. Crary, 1 Pa. 389.\nMessrs. Wallace and Tebby, for appellees;\nas to landlord\u2019s lien on growing crops, cited Watt v. Scofield, 76. Ill. 261; Prettyman v. Unland, 77 Ill. 206.\nTrover and trespass are concurrent actions for the unlawful taking and conversion of goods: 1 Chitty\u2019s Pl. 156.\nIn proceedings for distress the landlord must seize the property and reduce it to possession: Rev. Stat. 659.\nWhere a record is not the gist of the action, a copy under the seal of the court is a sufficient exemplification: 1 Greenleaf\u2019s Ev. \u00a7 501.\nThe authentication was good under our statute: Rev. Stat. 490, \u00a7 13." }, "file_name": "0452-01", "first_page_order": 448, "last_page_order": 453 }