McCann v. Gould
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action against the defendant as indorser of three promissory notes, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the jury before Robinson, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiffs, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court.
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Action against the defendant as indorser of three promissory notes, brought to the Superior Court in Fairfield County and tried to the jury before Robinson, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiffs, and appeal by the defendant for alleged errors in the rulings and charge of the court. No question of importance or general interest was involved except one with regard to the admission of the evidence of the bookkeeper, and by direction of the judges the opinion of the court upon the rest of the case is not printed.- The facts essential to an understanding of that portion of the opinion which…
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, J.. . . The court, against the defendant’s objection, permitted Mr. Bacon, a professional bookkeeper who had charge of the plaintiffs’ books at the time the notes in question were given, and who had examined them for the purpose of ascertaining the facts to which he testified—the books themselves having apparently been present in court—to state what balance was due Tlieron A. Gould upon the books at the time said note was indorsed; and to testify what at that time the interest of Tlieron A. Gould was, assuming he had one third of the profits and that the outstanding accounts upon the…
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