Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Huetter

Citations

• 68 Wash. 442
• 123 P. 607
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 1309

Syllabus

<p>Evidence — Best and Secondary Evidence — Work and Labor — Records — Account Books — Authentication. The accounts shown hy record books of a telephone company made up from time slips and oral reports sent in by numerous employees doing certain work, in the regular course of business, are admissible in evidence without producing the testimony of the men that they had correctly sent in their time, where it was shown by the clerks that the accounts were properly made up from the slips and correctly entered in the books; it being the best evidence obtainable.</p> <p>Evidence — Value of Articles — Competency—Sufficiency. The manufacturer’s current prices paid for articles made by only a few concerns and having no fixed general or market value, the prices for which varied from time to time with the market price of copper and lead, is competent evidence of the' value of the articles, and sufficient in the absence of any contradictory evidence.</p>