Case Name: Adam and William Tunno against Rogers and M'Bride
Court: South Carolina Court of Common Pleas
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1795-05
Citations: 1 Bay 480
Docket Number: 
Parties: Adam and William Tunno against Rogers and M’Bride.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Carolina Law Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 480–480

Head Matter:
Adam and William Tunno against Rogers and M’Bride.
Entries made in merchants Rooks, must be proved by the clerk who 5n the state!
THIS Vvas an action of assumpsit for goods sold and de- # ° ' livered. Some part of the entries in the plaintiffs’ books, . ( r 1 were made in the - hand-writing of Mr. Monk, who was absent in Orangeburgh district. On the plaintiffs’ offering to produce proof of Monti's hand-writing, an objection was taken to it, as Monk himself was in the state, and within the reach of the process of the court, it not being the highest evidence of which the case was capable ; which objection,

Opinion:
The Court
sustained, as coming within the rule of law laid down in the case of Fosters v. Sinkler, ante.