Hissrick v. McPherson
Supreme Court of Missouri
Hppeal from Cooper Circuit Court. Tbe plaintiff should have been permitted to read bis account book in evidence. (2 Phill. on Ev. p. 682-3, 691. Oowen & Hill’s note, 491. Beach v. Mills, 5 Conn. Rep. 496-7. 1 Greenl. Ev. §117, 118, note 1. 1 Smith’s Lead. Cases, top p. 304 and notes.
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Hppeal from Cooper Circuit Court. Tbe plaintiff should have been permitted to read bis account book in evidence. (2 Phill. on Ev. p. 682-3, 691. Oowen & Hill’s note, 491. Beach v. Mills, 5 Conn. Rep. 496-7. 1 Greenl. Ev. §117, 118, note 1. 1 Smith’s Lead. Cases, top p. 304 and notes. Ingraham. v. Bockins, 9 Serg. & R. 285. Curran v. Crawford, 4 S. & R. 8. 12 Pick. 139. 18 Mass. 427. 1 Rawle, 441. A party’s own original account book of sales, with or without the suppletory oath, is inadmissible in evidence. In the English courts, this evidence is never allowed. (3 Barn. & Aid. 142. Sickles v.…
1Opinion of the CourtScott, Judge
This was an action begun by the appellant against the respondent, on an account for butcher’s meat furnished to respondent, who kept a hotel in Boonville. The plaintiff proved that he was a butcher and sold meats on a credit to the defendant. Having no other proof in support of his demand, he then offered to read in evidence the original account book, in which he had daily made his entries of the sales of meats, supported by an affidavit that his account was just and correct. The court refused to admit this evidence, to which the plaintiff excepted, *312and afterwards submitted to a non-suit, and…
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