Wooten v. Mobile & Ohio Railroad

Citations

• 89 Miss. 322

Syllabus

<p>1. Evidence. Private records.</p> <p>Private records are not admissible in evidence in the absence of all showing that they were fairly and honestly kept and the entries therein made contemporaneously, or nearly so, with the matters of fact which they purport to record.</p> <p>2. Trials. Peremptory instruction, when proper.</p> <p>Where the court would set aside a verdict for a- party because of the insufficiency of the evidence, a peremptory instruction for the adverse party is proper.</p>