Girard Life-insurance, Annuity & Trust Co. v. Loving

The opinion of the court was delivered by

BURCH, J.:

The purpose of the action in the district court was to charge the defendant as a stockholder in a defunct corporation. The court held that the fact of stock ownership had not been established. The plaintiff assigns as error the rejection of certain evidence which it claims would have supplied the missing proof had it been admitted.

The books from which certain entries were offered in evidence were wholly unidentified as to the purpose for which they had been kept. There is nothing to indicate that the entries offered in evidence were correct,…