McKay v. Myers
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, upon an account annexed, to recover the proceeds of sales of leather. Writ dated April 11, 1895. Trial in the Superior Court, without a jury, before Sheldon, J., who found for the plaintiff; and the defendants alleged exceptions. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
We may first consider the question whether the press copy of the plaintiff’s letter of January 27, 1892, was rightly admitted in evidence, the defendants having failed to produce the original upon notice. The plaintiff testified that he wrote the letter and took the press copy himself, and also testified to a general course of business in conducting his correspondence which tended to show that he deposited this letter in the post office properly directed to the defendants. In cross-examination he testified that he would not say, as a matter of memory, *314that he deposited this particular letter,…
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