Tornquist
Tornquist v. Johnson
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Harden, J.
Suit on foreign judgment for money.
On October 20, 1923, O. W. Richardson & Company, a corporation, procured a judgment against defendants Halleck F. Johnson and Ralph E. Johnson, in the Marshall County Circuit Court, comprising the forty-first judicial circuit (since changed to the seventy-second judicial circuit) of the state of Indiana, in the sum of $579.39, together with interest thereon at the rate of six per cent per annum until paid. Plaintiff filed this action as assignee of said O. W. Richardson & Company, a corporation, against said defendants on said judgment with the result that judgment was rendered herein in favor of plaintiff and against defendant Halleck P. Johnson for the sum of $795.65. The defendant Ralph E. Johnson was not served with process herein; nor did he make any appearance. Prom the judgment said Halleck P. Johnson has appealed.
Copies of the record of the Indiana court, viz.: Judgment, summons together with sheriff’s certificate of service thereof upon defendants, and answer to complaint denying the averments thereof and purporting to have been filed in behalf of defendants, were received in evidence over the objection of appellant. All of said…