Scranton Trust Co. v. Hartshorn
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 60, March'T., 1908, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. Lackawanna Co., May T., 1905, No. 862, refusing to take off nonsuit in case of Scranton Trust Company, Administrator d. b. n. c. t. a. of the Estate of Ambrose Mulley, deceased, v. Thomas Hartshorn. Assumpsit for goods sold and delivered. Before Newcomb, J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Superior Court.
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Appeal, No. 60, March'T., 1908, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. Lackawanna Co., May T., 1905, No. 862, refusing to take off nonsuit in case of Scranton Trust Company, Administrator d. b. n. c. t. a. of the Estate of Ambrose Mulley, deceased, v. Thomas Hartshorn. Assumpsit for goods sold and delivered. Before Newcomb, J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Superior Court. The court entered a compulsory nonsuit which it subsequently refused to take off. : . ■ Errors assigned were in refusing to admit in evidence the ledger referred to in the opinion of the Superior Court, and- in refusing…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
After the death of Ambrose Mulley, who had a large retail store and conducted a large credit business, his executor carried on the business, employing a system of bookkeeping which is thus described by the plaintiff’s witnesses: Each clerk had a book in which leaves were placed each morning; when a customer made a purchase on credit his name and the items and prices of his purchase were entered on one of these-leaves; at night these loose sheets were taken out and bound together; and at the end of the month these were arranged chronologically in what was called a posting…
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