Bentley v. Bentley’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. ““* * * Under all the circumstances and in view of the well-known methods of modern business and bank book keeping, and the absence of anything suspicious about the books, and the fact that they were duly identified as the books of the bank, we fail to see why the books themselves showing the accounts of the parties litigant were not admissible in evidence.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hobbs v. Breen