Dailey v. Coker

On the trial of this cause in the district court the defendant below objected to the reading in evidence to the jury the receipt sued on, because the same was not stamped as required by the revenue laws of the United States, and thereupon the plaintiff asked and obtained leave of the court for that purpose, and then in open court attached to said receipt the United States revenue stamp required by law and again offered to read the receipt in evidence to the jury, and defendants again objected, because the receipt had not been stamped in the manner required by law. Defendant’s objections were…