Weigle v. Brautigam

Weigle kept a meat shop in Dixon and Mrs. Brautigam kept a hotel there. She purchased meat at his shop for a series of years. Afterward he sued her in the Circuit Court for a balance claimed to be due upon her account. At the trial before a jury upon issues formed, the court refused to admit in evidence his books of account or any of the entries against defendant therein, and at the close of plaintiff’s evidence, directed the jury to find for the defendant. Such a verdict was rendered. A motion for a new trial was interposed by plaintiff and denied, and there was judgment against plaintiff…