Kitsap County Credit Bureau, Inc. v. Richards

The Texas Company assigned to the plaintiff Kitsap County Credit Bureau for collection the balance due on the open account of Robert M. Alderman. Thereafter, the credit bureau instituted this action against Hobson D. Richards and wife alleging that the defendant Richards had guaranteed the Alderman account and that the same was unpaid.

During the trial, H. E. Turner, collection manager for the Texas Company, was called as a witness for the plaintiff and, in explaining the Alderman account, he voluntarily produced a card from the records of the Texas Company showing the account had been…