Case Name: Prince, Executor, versus Swett
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1793-02
Citations: 1 Tyng 569
Docket Number: 
Parties: * Prince, Executor, versus Swett.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 510–510

Head Matter:
* Prince, Executor, versus Swett.
(February Term, 1793,
in Essex.)
Where a tradesman’s day-book contains marks which show the items transferred to his leger, the leger must be produced in evidence, in support of the day-book.
This was assumpsit for goods sold and delivered. The plaintiff offered the testator’s day-book in evidence. When the book was produced, it appeared by post-marks that the account had been transferred to a' leger, and the counsel for the defendant insisted that the leger should be produced.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
When an account is transferred to a leger from the day-book, the leger should be produced, that the other party may have advantage of any items entered therein to his credit.
Faxon vs. Hollis, 13 Mass. Rep. 427.— Cogswell vs. Dolliver, ante, 217 peirce vs. Smith, 4 Mass. Rep. 455.