 | United States. Supreme Court - 1826 - 518 σελίδες
...evidence of it's correctness. It may be impeached by proof of unfairness, or mistake, in law, or in fact ; and if it be confined to particular items of...nothing in relation to other items not stated in it. OF THE UNITED STATES. 257 The legal conclusion, therefore, insisted upon 1826. by the defendant, that... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1826 - 522 σελίδες
...showing errors in some of the items stated in it. The rule is the same in principle at law ; a settled account is only prima facie evidence of its correctness. It may be impeached by proof of unfairness, or mistake, in law, or in fact ; and if it be confined to particular items of account, it concludes nothing... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1826 - 542 σελίδες
...items stated in it. The rule is the same in principle at law ; a settled account is only prima fade evidence of its correctness. It may be impeached by proof of unfairness, or mistake, in law, or in fact ; and if it be confined to particular items of account, it concludes nothing... | |
 | Isaac Ridler Butts - 1849 - 118 σελίδες
...settled account. of its correctuess. It may be impeached by proof of unfairness, mistakes or fraud ; and if it be confined to particular items of account,...nothing in relation to other items not stated in it. Cross accounts, when of long standing and complicated, are fruitful sources of disputes. They should... | |
 | Richard Peters - 1860 - 836 σελίδες
...v. Hart, 11 Wheat. 237; 6 Cond. Rep. 287. 18. The rule is the same, in principle, at law; a settled account is only prima facie evidence of its correctness ; it may be impeached by proof of unfairness 01 mistakes in law or fact; and if Account, in Chancery Proceedings. — Account Render. it be confined... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, Erasmus Peshine Smith, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Joel Tiffany, Samuel Hand - 1860 - 650 σελίδες
...293 ; Barrow v. Rhinclander, 1 John. Ch. R., 550.) At law, as well as in equity, a settled account may be impeached by proof of unfairness or mistakes in law or fact. (Perkins v. Hart, 11 Wheat., 237; 1 Story's Eq, Jur., §§ 523, 528, 529. ) The acquiescence in the... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1862 - 658 σελίδες
...priraa facie evidence of its correctness; that it may be impeached by proof of unfairness, or mistake in law or fact; and, if it be confined to particular...nothing in relation to other items not stated in it. (Perkins vs. Hart, 11 AVhea., 256.) Granting the correctness of that principle as applied to the case... | |
 | 1884 - 934 σελίδες
...evidence of its correctness. It шау be impeached by proof of unfairness, or mistake in law or in fact; and if it be confined to particular items of...nothing in relation to other items not stated in it. Perkins v. Hart, 11 Wheat., 256. § 35. Where the plaintiff renders an account, if the defendant relies... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1884 - 974 σελίδες
...only prima facie evidence of ite correctness; it may be impeached by proof of unfairness, or mistake In law or fact; and, if it be confined to particular...It concludes nothing in relation to other items not KWtPil in it. When there Is no unfairness, and all the facts are 'NOTE.— WTm(i»o/lnaJ decree or... | |
 | 1906 - 1164 σελίδες
...showing errors In some of the items stated in it. The rule is the same In principle at law. A settled account is only prima facie evidence of its correctness. It may be impeached by proof of unfairness or mistake, in law or in fact' That was an action of indebitatus assumpslt, to which a settlement upon... | |
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The rule is the same in principle at law ; a settled account is only prima facie evidence of its correctness. It may be impeached by proof of unfairness, or mistake, in law, or in fact... 
