Hall v. Glidden
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Exceptions from Nisi Prius, Cutting, J., presiding. Assuhpsit, on account annexed. The plaintiff was a cordwainer, and the account mostly consisted of items pertaining to his trade. To support his account, his book containing the charges, with his suppletory oath, was admitted against the objection of defendant.
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On Exceptions from Nisi Prius, Cutting, J., presiding. Assuhpsit, on account annexed. The plaintiff was a cordwainer, and the account mostly consisted of items pertaining to his trade. To support his account, his book containing the charges, with his suppletory oath, was admitted against the objection of defendant. It appeared, that he did but a small business; that his charges were first made upon a slate until it was full, and in from two to four weeks from the time they were so entered when the work was done, he transferred them to his book. An account in set-off was duly filed, and among…
1Opinion of the CourtAppleton, J.
— The verdict in this case was rendered by the jury for the sum of sixteen cents, as the balance in favor of the plaintiff over and above the amount filed in set-off, but both parties being dissatisfied with the result have taken exceptions to the instructions of the presiding Judge, in accordance with which the jury must be presumed to have acted in the discharge of their duty.
The plaintiff was introduced with his book and testified that the charges therein were first made on a slate, when the work was done; that he was accustomed to continue making them till it was full; that he then…
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