Hinton v. Brown

1 Blackf. 429

• Court: Indiana Supreme Court
• Decided: May 5, 1826
• Status: Published

Opinion

Holman, J.

The paper filed in this case, purporting to be a record of the Hendricks Circuit Court, is not certified under the seal of said Court. The clerk informs us, that he has sealed it with his private seal of office, no public seal having been devised by said Court This information does not aid the. case. The act of assembly requires the Court to have a seal; but what that seal is, and whether it is intended by them to be temporary or permanent, is immaterial. Their records can only be proved by their seal, and as this paper has no seal it must be rejected. It may however be remarked, that the rejection of the supposed record, in this case, is a matter of but little consequence to the plaintiff in error; because if this paper was a record, the points urged for reversing the judgment, to wit, the overruling of the motion tp quash the writ, and the rejection of the plea in abatement, form no part of a regular record; inasmuch as no exception is taken to the- opinion of the Court in the first instance, and the exception in the second is not signed and sealed by the judges

(1).

Per Curiam.

The writ of error is dismissed with costs.

Vide Springer et al. v. Peterson et al., ante, p. 188.