Glenn v. . Orr
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Civil ACTION, tried before Avery, Judge, and a jury, at Spring Term, 1886, of Mecklenburg Superior Court. The action was instituted to recover of the defendant the unpaid balance due from him for subscription to the capital stock of The National Express and Transportation Company, an insolvent corporation, of which the plaintiff had been appointed the trustee and receiver.
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Civil ACTION, tried before Avery, Judge, and a jury, at Spring Term, 1886, of Mecklenburg Superior Court. The action was instituted to recover of the defendant the unpaid balance due from him for subscription to the capital stock of The National Express and Transportation Company, an insolvent corporation, of which the plaintiff had been appointed the trustee and receiver. It became material on the trial, to prove the organization of the National Express and Transportation Company, and the appellant offered in evidence for this and other purposes, the records, books and minutes of that…
1Opinion of the Court
Merrimon, J.,
(after stating the facts). It was admitted on the trial, that the books and records offered in evidence, were those of the National Express - and Transportation Company, and it must be taken from such admission, as there is no suggestion to the contrary, that the proceedings •entered in them, and the orders and statements therein made, are regular, and made by the proper clerk, secretary •or agent of the company, or some person authorized to make them. It must so appear, before such records and books can be received as evidence for any purpose.
The records and books thus…
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