Chambers v. Williams Bros. Lumber Co.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) One of the special grounds of the amended motion for a new trial contends that the trial court erred in admitting in evidence the ledger sheet of the plaintiff to prove its account. This is contended to be error because the witness by whom the ledger sheet was identified, R. W. Williams, did not of his own knowledge know about the delivery of the lumber, he having testified that as to the correctness of the account he was relying upon the ledger sheet.

Code § 38-310 provides in part as follows: “The books of account of any merchant, shopkeeper, physican,…