Jones v. Long
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of Alleghany county. This suit was originally brought by the defendant in error, Alexander Long against Thomas Jones, the plaintiff in error, before an. alderman, to recover the price for which he had contracted to dig coal for Jones, by whom an appeal was taken from the judgment of the alderman.
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ERROR to the common pleas of Alleghany county. This suit was originally brought by the defendant in error, Alexander Long against Thomas Jones, the plaintiff in error, before an. alderman, to recover the price for which he had contracted to dig coal for Jones, by whom an appeal was taken from the judgment of the alderman. On the trial in the common pleas, Long, the plaintiff below, offered in evidence a book, purporting to be his book of original entries, and stated, on his voir dire, that the wagoner who was hired by Jones to haul the coal from the pit at which he was working, made a return…
1Opinion of the Court
*326The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Sergeant, J.
Evidence of the sale and delivery of goods, or of work done, founded on the plaintiff’s book of original entries, with his suppletory oath, though not admissible by the common law of England, originated here from the peculiar situation of an infant colony, and has continued to the present time with less inconvenience and fewer attempts at fraud than would at first have been supposed by those accustomed to the strictness of the common law rules of evidence. The questions that have arisen as to the nature of the proof required, and the extent…
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