Case ID: scl_4/html/0127-01.html
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Author: {"author": "G Rímele, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CONSTITUTIONAL COURT, CHARLESTON,
    JAN., 1807.
    Watson v. Bigelow.
    Books of accounts, of a scrivener, nolTfdmissible.
    Motion for a new trial. At the trial in Charleston district, before Judge-, he allowed the plaintiff, who was a scrivener, to give his books of account in evidence.
    Argued by Cogdell, for the motion ; Geddes, contra.
    
   10th January, 1807.

G Rímele, J.,

delivered the opinion of the whole court. That the evidence ought not to have been admitted. That the books of" scriveners are not admissible in like manner as the books of shopkeepers, &c.; and especially to prove what commissions were to be allowed for moneys received, &c. See 1 vol. 105, Lamb v. Hart’s adm’rs. 1 Dall. 238. 1 Binn. 234.

New trial granted.