Bible v. Somers Construction Company

Mell, Chief Justice.

1. Where the judge appointed an auditor to pass upon all questions of law and fact arising in the case, and authorized him to employ a certified public accountant to assist in examining books, records, and accounts, an accountant who was thereafter so employed, and who had made an examination of books of the plaintiff upon which the defendant relied in part to establish his defense and counterclaim, was not incompetent as a witness to testify as to what the books showed, either because he was employed under authority of the court to assist the auditor, or because the order…