Case ID: dc_4/html/0623-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Lombard v. Cornelius McLean.
    Copies of plaintiff’s account-books are not evidence.
    Assumpsit for balance of account; the plaintiff’ having been the defendant’s factor for the sale of glass,
    
      Mr. Marbary, for the plaintiff,
    offered the deposition of a witness taken in Boston, under the Act of Congress, stating that an account, thereto annexed, was truly copied from the plaintiff’s books; the entries in which, with some exceptions, were in the handwriting of the witness, and were true.
   ,The Court

(nem. con.) rejected so much of the deposition as related to the books and accounts, the original entries not being produced.

Verdict for the plaintiff.