Blanchard v. Johnson

1. “Books of account of others than those doing a regular business and keeping daily entries thereof, who are not merchants, shopkeepers, physicians, or blacksmiths, are not admissible in evidence to prove an account.” Bass v. Gobert, 113 Ga. 262 (38 S. E. 834).

2. Where a woman, not as administratrix but as an individual, brought an action of trover to recover certain mules which she claimed belonged to her husband at the time of his death, this alone was not sufficient to render the defendant incompetent to testify that the deceased husband bought the mules for him and that he paid the…