Ellis v. Wiley

The appellant supposes that the Court below erred in permitting a book purporting to be a reprint of a book published by authority of the State of Louisiana to prove the rate interest in that State. The presumption is that this second edition had also .the sanction of the Government of Louisiana ; and if so, the reception of it as evidence is not repugnant to Article 747 Hartley’s Digest.

The other ground, relied on by the plaintiff, is equally unavailable. The Court did not err in overruling the appellant’s motion for a continuance. His showing was defective in this : it did not show…