Southern Home Bldg. & Loan Ass'n. v. Butler

1. Though a witness upon his direct examination testified in general terms that a particular account was correct, yet where upon cross-examination he admitted that he did “not know anything as to the accuracy and correctness of the account outside of the books from which it is taken, ’ ’ that he did not keep the books, and did not know whether they were correct or not, the correctness of the account was not duly proved.

2. Where in a given case the plaintiff depended entirely upon the testimony of a single witness to establish the correctness of an account, for the amount of which a verdict…