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4 Yeates 396

Frey v. Wells

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 15, 1807

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1807-03-15

Writ of error to the Common Pleas of Luzerne county. It appeared by the record, that the suit was brought to November term 1797. The declaration was in debt for 381I. 2s. 1 id. money of Pennsylvania, recovered in March term 1775, at Litchfield county in the state of Connecticut, as by the record, &c. appears.

Decided 1807-03-15

¶1The opinion of the court was delivered as follows by

Tilgi-i-man, C. J.

¶2The exemplification of the record was good evidence, and shewed the same debt which the plaintiff declared on, and the judgment upon which issue was joined. The exemplification and certificate are different things. If the stamp act bears on the case, the exemplification would be no evidence even in Connecticut. Now, in Connecticut, no certificate of a judge is necessary; and therefore no argument founded on the date of that certificate could have any weight there; consequently, the exemplification being evidence in some courts, cannot be affected by the provisions of the stamp act.

¶3Judgment reversed.

¶4[Afterwards record remitted.]

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