Smith v. Chicago Portrait Co.

Citations

• 120 Miss. 277
• 82 So. 145

Syllabus

<p>1. Evidence. Secondary evidence. Statement of account.</p> <p>Copies of accounts, proved by witnesses to be correctly transcribed from- the boohs are not admissible in evidence even though the books are shown to have been correctly kept.</p> <p>2. Same.</p> <p>In a suit by an employer' on a bond guaranteeing the faithful performance of an employee’s duties, an itemized statement of the employee’s account, testified by another employee who kept the books, as being a correct copy of the books, is not admissible in evidence although the books were correctly kept.</p>