Walter Lindheimer v. United Fruit Company

(concurring) :

I concur. My concurrence rests on the grounds that error was commited here, but that it was harmless.

Palmer v. Hoffman, 318 U.S. 109, 63 S.Ct. 477, 87 L.Ed. 645 (1943), stands for the proposition that the Federal Business Records Act is limited by the common law concept of “trustworthiness” ; in part it requires that those preparing the reports be disinterested in the events they record and that, if there be a motive to falsify, it is checked by safeguards in the normal business procedures involved. Lindheimer argues convincingly.that the minutes of the safety committee,…