490.650. Account book, when produced. - Missouri Statutes

Account book, when produced.

490.650. The court before which any action for the recoveryof any sum or balance due on account, and where the matter atissue and on trial is a proper and usual subject of charge onbooks of account, may require either party to produce, at thetrial, either his ledger or original book of entries, or both;and no disputed account shall be allowed upon the oath of theparty, when it shall appear that he has a book of originalentries, unless such book shall be produced upon reasonablerequest.

(RSMo 1939 § 1888)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 1724; 1919 § 5411; 1909 § 6355

(1954) An account may be established by oral testimony and where such testimony as to each item in the account was admitted without objection, a submissible case was made. O'Connor v. Egan (A.), 274 S.W.2d 334.