Stabler v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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1. ““It is to be noted that the book was not used at the hearing as an aid to the recollection of! the witness, nor was it claimed or assumed that it was more trustworthy than the present recollection of witnesses. Neither of the defendants professed that they had not exact, independent memory of the narrated facts. Quite the contrary. Mrs. Clark had indeed no knowledge that the money had been paid by her husband, except that she claims he told her ho had paid it, and she on the evening of the day in question made the written narrations in the book; nor is the book one of accounts kept in the usual course of a business. It is the settled law in this state that such evidence under such circumstances will not be received. Weaver v. Bromley, 65 Mich. 212 [ 31 N. W. 839 ]; Collins v. Shaw, 124 Mich. 474 [ 83 N. W. 146 ]. See Wigmore on Evidence, §§ 73-A-738.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Southern Ry. Co. v. Mooresville Cotton Mills