Taylor-Wharton Iron & Steel Co. v. Earnshaw

This action is on a promissory note for $972, dated November 19,1921, alleged to have been signed by the defendant as maker, and payable to the plaintiff. The defendant in his answer denied that the signature was genuine.

At the trial the plaintiff’s credit manager testified that, in the regular course of the plaintiff’s business, when orders are received, each order is filed and a number given it; when a shipment is made an invoice is sent to the customer and a carbon copy kept on file until the invoice is paid, and when paid, the invoice is stamped and taken out “of the active files and…