In a court case about money owed on an account, the court can make either side bring in their account books as proof. If someone is trying to get a disputed charge approved just by swearing it is true, but they have a book where they recorded their entries, that book has to be shown in court if the other side asks for it.
490.650. Account book, when produced. — The court before which any for the recovery of any sum or balance due on account, and where the matter at and on trial is a proper and usual subject of charge on books of account, may require either to produce, at the trial, either his or original book of entries, or both; and no shall be allowed upon the of the party, when it shall appear that he has a , unless such book shall be produced upon reasonable request.
(RSMo 1939 § 1888)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 1724; 1919 § 5411; 1909 § 6355
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