Kennedy v. Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias

The judgment in this case must be reversed and the cause remanded. The decision of this appeal and of the original cause turns entirely upon the exclusion from evidence of the instrument sued on when offered in the first instance, its exclusion a second time when offered after the Constitution and Laws of the Endowment Bank Knights of Pythias had been proven, and the rejection of the evidence then offered as a further basis of its admission, that the alleged contract evidenced by it had been ratified by the acceptance for four months by the defendant company of the work provided for in it,…