Rogero v. Zippel

Citations

• 33 Fla. 625

Syllabus

<p>1. Under the actof March 15th, 1843, Section 4, p. 514, McClellan’s, Digest, enacting that the printed copies of the statute laws of any of the United States or the territories, if purporting to be published under the authority of the respective governments, or if commonly admitted and read as evidence in their courts, shall be admitted in all courts of law and on all other occasions in this State as prima facie evidence of such law, a printed volume purporting to contain the statute laws of another state is not admissible as evidence unless it-purports to have been published under the authority of such other state, or is proved to •be commonly admitted and read as evidence in the courts of ■•that state. Our courts do not take judicial knowledge of the ' fact that a volume not purporting to have been so published is commonly admittted and read as evidence in the courts of the of the state or territory whose statutes it purports to contain.</p> <p>.“2. The seventh edition of th'e “Revised Statutes of New York,” edited by Montgomery H. Throop and published by Banks & Brothers, A. D. 1882, held inadmissible here in the absence of proof that it is commonly admitted and read as evidence in the courts of New York, and this notwithstanding the printed cer..tificate therein of the secretary of state of New York as to such volume’s containing a correct transcript of the Revised Statutes •■as originally published.</p>