Andy Mohan, Inc. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““ * * * I am of opinion that Andy Mohan’s original orders for the suits, slacks, and shirt, tied as they are to the customs entry invoice by reference to the order number, are admissible as business records made in the regular course of business. 28 U.S.C., section 1732 . The invoice for services and the sales invoices for materials are properly admissible on the question of what it cost to buy the materials and make these suits, slacks, and shirt. The exhibits weigh but little on this record in view of what I ascribe to be Mr. Mohan’s vague and indefinite testimony, best illustrated by what he said it cost him to fabricate and pack the imported items of clothing. “Asked what he paid in Hong Kong dollars for packing the imported items, Mr. Mohan stated that he paid one Hong Kong dollar for the box and that with ‘the thread, and everything, about, roughly, it cost me [Mr. Mohan] about a dollar-forty, dollar-fifty, something like that.’ (R. 12). That is all the record says about packing and for me it is much too uncertain and indefinite to rely on. When questioned about what he paid the tailor to make the suits and slacks, Mr. Mohan stated that he had the bills with which he paid the tailor. Plaintiff’s counsel elected not to offer the bills in evidence at that time, and elicited from Mr. Mohan testimony that he paid the tailor eighty Hong Kong dollars for fabricating the imported suits. (R. 16.) The paid bills would, of course, have been the best evidence of what Mr. Mohan pai”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 396 F. Supp. 1280 - Andy Mohan, Inc. v. United States