Booker v. Benson Hardware Co.

The action is upon an account of a retail merchant, brought by an assignee of the account. The pleas were in short by consent. The plaintiff filed with the complaint an itemized and verified statement of the account, and defendant a counter affidavit denying its correctness and his liability as to the whole amount thereof. Code, § 7666.

Several assignments of error go to the ruling of the court admitting in evidence the account book of the merchant.

In Loveman, Joseph & Loeb v. McQueen, 203 Ala. 280, 82 So. 530, this court construed Code of 1907, § 4003, touching the admission of books of…