House v. Beak
Illinois Supreme Court
Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. George Driggs, Judge, presiding.
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Appeal from the Appellate Court for the First District;— heard in that court on appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. George Driggs, Judge, presiding. This is an action of assumpsit, begun, on April 16, 1889, in the Circuit Court of Cook County, by Amelia Beak and Alfred Bucher, late partners under the firm name of Beak & Bucher, suing for the use of Wight Bros., a firm composed of Louis Wight and J. Franklin Wight, against Sidney Guy Lea, Belden Seymour Jr., W. T. Moore, Frank Conover an Everett House, composing the firm of Lea & Co. Of the defendants, Lea and House alone…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Magruder
It is assigned as error, that the trial court received in evidence the books of account of Beak & Bucher, showing the items of the accounts sued upon. It is claimed, that a proper foundation was not laid for the introduction of the books, and that, therefore, they should not have been admitted.
We think, that the books were properly admitted in connection with the evidence set forth in the statement of facts, which precedes this opinion. The court did not determine the weight of the books-as testimony, but simply their admissibility. It was for the jury to decide what weight should be given to…
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