Perry v. Parker

Maps, surveys, plans and plots which are thirty years old, free on their face of suspicion and found in proper custody are admissible in evidence as ancient documents as an exception to the hearsay rule. Lawrence v. Tennant, 64 N. H. 532; Twombly v. Lord, 74 N. H. 211. The plan in this case, although over twenty-five years old, does not satisfy this test of antiquity and is not classified as an ancient document. 46 A. L. R. (2d) 1318. There was a suggestion in a dictum in Homer v. Cilley, 14 N. H. 85, 98, that the period might be reduced to twenty years but it died aborning. However, we think…