Hough v. Doyle
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
The record of this case being returned on a writ of error from the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton County, accompanied by two bills of exceptions to evidence, it appeared that it came before the court below, on an appeal from a justice of the peace, before whom an action was brought by John Doyle, the plaintiff below and defendant in error, against Joseph Hough, for work and labour done by the former for the latter, on a canal.
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The record of this case being returned on a writ of error from the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton County, accompanied by two bills of exceptions to evidence, it appeared that it came before the court below, on an appeal from a justice of the peace, before whom an action was brought by John Doyle, the plaintiff below and defendant in error, against Joseph Hough, for work and labour done by the former for the latter, on a canal. On the trial in the court of Common Pleas, the plaintiff was sworn in support of what he produced on his book of original entries, and testified that it was his…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Rogers, J.
The plaintiff in error has assigned several reasons, any one of which is sufficient, against the admission of the paper, purporting to be a book of original entries: That it is not a book of original entries: That neither the plaintiff nor defendant’s name appears on the paper, nor any charges against the defendant: That it is unintelligible without explanation, which the plaintiff is incompetent to give, and that it is mutilated, and is not the entire book.
We are further of opinion, that the court were in error, in admitting the paper…
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