Layton v. Morrison

Deen, Presiding Judge.

1. Generally, over a best evidence objection, a photocopy may not be admitted in evidence without accounting for the original. Photographic Business &c. News v. Commercial Color Corp., 122 Ga. App. 825 (1) (178 SE2d 922) (1970). Here the plaintiff admitted having the original document on which he sued in his possession at home, and he proffered a photocopy which he swore was identical with the original. An unqualified reception of the copy would be error. Where, however, the court made a provisional ruling that the copy would be received subject to substitution of the…