Webb v. Michener’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 10 state decisions

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1. ““By the amendment of 1876 material changes were made in the statute in relation to the authentication of account-books. Section 71, c. 73, Gen. St. 1866, which required their verification by a clerk where the original entries were made by him, is repealed, and section 70, which previously provided for the suppletory oath of the party, is amended, so that he is now permitted to ‘prove’ that the charges are in the handwriting of a person authorized to make them, and that they are the original entries of goods sold, etc. It was not necessary, therefore, that Canfield should be called to testify as to the entries made by him and we think the evidence sufficient, in view of the circumstances, to make a prima facie case that the charges were original entries regularly made as the transactions occurred in the usual course of business. . . .. ””

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