Case Name: LOMBARD v. McLEAN
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1835-11
Citations: 15 F. Cas. 798
Docket Number: 
Parties: LOMBARD v. McLEAN.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 15
Pages: 798–798

Head Matter:
Case No. 8,471.
LOMBARD v. McLEAN.
[4 Cranch, C. C. 623.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
Nov. Term, 1835.
Evidence — Copy op Account Books.
Copies of plaintiff’s account books are not evidence.
Assumpsit for balance of account; the plaintiff having been the defendant’s [Cornelius McLean’s] factor for the sale of glass.
Mr. Marbury, for plaintiff,
offered the deposition of a witness taken in Boston, under the act of congress [4 Stat. 197], 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.

Opinion:
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.