Hargett v. .

The contents of a record lost or destroyed cannot be proven otherwise than by a copy. It is better to suffer a private mischief than a public inconvenience, especially one of such magnitude as the introducing of parol testimony to supply a record.

Quere de hoc by Reporter.

NOTE. — See Stuart v. Fitzgerald, 6 N.C. 255; S. c., 4 N.C. 17,234; Spencer v. Cohoon, 18 N.C. 27.

Overruled: Mobley v. Watts, 98 N.C. 288.