Pharr v. Gall’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. ““An instrument of writing, though res inter alios acta, may be admitted in evidence as a part of the transaction in controversy or as a contemporaneous memorandum to be read in connection with the oral evidence.” 24 Am. & Eng. Ency. Law (2d ed.), 688, citing Pharr v. Gall, 108 La. 307 , 32 South. 418 , where it said: “The reception of this document in evidence was objected to on the ground that the document was res inter alios acta, the plaintiff not having been a party to the same except to authorize his wife. We think the document was admissible as part of the circumstantial evidence in the case. The testimony is to the effect that a proposition was made to plaintiff and was accepted, and was afterwards embodied in this document, and the document handed to him for him to get his wife’s signature thereto, and that he did so. The document not having been signed by plaintiff does not proprio vigore prove,anything against him'; but it is at least a contemporaneous memorandum, the accuracy of which he cannot well gainsay, and as such it was admissible, in connection with the oral testimony.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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