Tennessee Supreme Court, 1814

Lawrence and Lawrence v. Jas. Roberts

Lawrence and Lawrence v. Jas. Roberts
Tennessee Supreme Court · Decided May 6, 1814 · Overton
2 Tenn. 236

Lawrence and Lawrence v. Jas. Roberts

Opinion of the Court

Overton, J.

delivered the following opinion of the court.

This bill was filed to injoin a judgment recovered in Tennessee, upon the transcript of a record from the state of North Carolina.

The record of a recovery made in any state in the union, is certainly prima facie evidence to the courts of every other state, that the party is entitled to receive that which was adjudged to him ; and this presumption must always stand until by proof, it is shown that such recovery was unjust. No proof of this description has been given on this occasion, therefore the bill is dismissed.

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