Elliott v. Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana

FOSTER, Justice.

This is a suit on an open account for goods sold to defendants sued as partners, in which the burden was on plaintiff to prove its correctness. To meet that burden, the plaintiff introduced as a witness W. F. Bradley, who testified that he was credit manager for plaintiff, and, as such, had supervision of accounts receivable, and handled credits. He identified a sheet, and testified that it is the original ledger sheet, and that he knew these entries on it to be true and correct, and made by this bookkeeping machine operator, whose duty it was to make them, and that they were…