If an original process, pleading or paper in a cause is lost or withheld by any person, the court may, at any stage of the suit, authorize its place to be supplied by a copy to be used instead of the original.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 20-11-109
Copy of lost paper
Code 1858, § 2876; Shan., § 4596; mod
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