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  "name": "Barr & Collins, Appellee, v. Thomas Mack, Appellant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Barr & Collins v. Mack",
  "decision_date": "1917-10-09",
  "docket_number": "Gen. No. 22,899",
  "first_page": "363",
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    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
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    "name_long": "Illinois",
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    "parties": [
      "Barr & Collins, Appellee, v. Thomas Mack, Appellant."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Barnes\ndelivered the opinion of the court.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Gurdon Williams and Thomas Mack, for appellant.",
      "Balcomb, Lane & McGrath, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Barr & Collins, Appellee, v. Thomas Mack, Appellant.\nGen. No. 22,899.\n(Not to be reported in full.)\nAppeal from the County Court of Cook county; the Hon. J. J. Cooke, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1916.\nReversed and remanded.\nOpinion filed October 9, 1917.\nStatement of the Case.\nAction in assumpsit by Barr & Collins, a corporation, plaintiff, against Thomas Mack, defendant, claiming an indebtedness from defendant for mill work and building material. Defendant filed a plea of general issue and a set-off. From a judgment for plaintiff for $272.10, the precise amount of the difference between the total debit and credit items as shown by its ledger, defendant appeals.\nGurdon Williams and Thomas Mack, for appellant.\nBalcomb, Lane & McGrath, for appellee.\nAbstract of the Decision.\n1. Evidence, \u00a7 110 \u2014 what constitutes best evidence of stated account. Where the seller of goods seeks to prove an alleged stated account, the original bills or their duplicates actually sent to and received by the purchaser constitute the best evidence of such account.\n2. Evidence, \u00a7 138* \u2014 what is basis for introduction of secondary evidence of stated account. Where it is sought to prove a stated account for goods sold, secondary evidence of the original bills or their duplicates is not admissible where there is no attempt to produce or account for them.\n3. Evidence, \u00a7 143* \u2014 when ledger entries not admissible oh failure to produce checks. Where, in an action by the seller of goods on a stated account, notice is given to the defendant to produce checks which were entered in the cash book of plaintiff as cash and credited to defendant, the failure to produce them does not warrant reading or computing the amount of credits as copied into the ledger from apparent sources of original entry in plaintiff\u2019s possession.\nSee Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. XI to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number."
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