Nello L. Teer Company v. Dickerson, Inc.

Assignments of error 1 through 13 relate to the testimony of plaintiff’s auditor “who interpreted the ledgers’of both plaintiff and defendant. The purport of his testimony was that the books of both corporations showed that the defendant owed the plaintiff the two invoices totaling $10,720.90.

Entries in the books of the defendant were clearly admissible against it as admissions. Stansbury on Evidence, Section 156. It was permissible for the auditor, an expert accountant, to interpret the books and testify what the books showed; he did not purport to say what amount was, in fact, due. Whether…