Kressman v. Kressman

Appellate Court of Illinois

Kressman v. Kressman

180 Ill. App. 307, 1913 Ill. App. LEXIS 772

CourtAppellate Court of Illinois

DecidedMay 9, 1913

DocketGen. No. 18,397

StatusPublished

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Kressman v. Kressman, 180 Ill. App. 307, 1913 Ill. App. LEXIS 772 (Ill. Ct. App. 1913).

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Opinion

Mr. Justice Barnes

delivered the opinion of the court.

This was a suit by an executor to recover a balance claimed to be due on a note given by defendant to the deceased. The defense was that it had been paid by defendant to the deceased in his life time. In support thereof defendant was permitted to offer in evidence an alleged memorandum book containing what he claimed were items of his account with deceased. It contained no accounts or transactions with anybody else, and none that purported therein to be transactions with deceased. It consisted merely of. a series of dates and amounts in dollars, but nothing to indicate that they represented any particular transactions. To show that they did required parol evidence, and, therefore, of itself the memorandum had no probative value. Defendant took the witness stand and offered to testify that they represented transactions with deceased. No proof except the note having been offered on behalf of the executor, the court properly held that the statute renders such evidence incompetent. On the same ground the court properly refused to receive in evidence checks of the defendant, made payable to currency, bearing no endorsements of deceased, and also to permit defendant to testify that they represented payments made to deceased. The judgment will be affirmed.

Affirmed.

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Mr. Justice Barnes

delivered the opinion of the court.

This was a suit by an executor to recover a balance claimed to be due on a note given by defendant to the deceased. The defense was that it had been paid by defendant to the deceased in his life time. In support thereof defendant was permitted to offer in evidence an alleged memorandum book containing what he claimed were items of his account with deceased. It contained no accounts or transactions with anybody else, and none that purported therein to be transactions with deceased. It consisted merely of. a series of dates and amounts in dollars, but nothing to indicate that they represented any particular transactions. To show that they did required parol evidence, and, therefore, of itself the memorandum had no probative value. Defendant took the witness stand and offered to testify that they represented transactions with deceased. No proof except the note having been offered on behalf of the executor, the court properly held that the statute renders such evidence incompetent. On the same ground the court properly refused to receive in evidence checks of the defendant, made payable to currency, bearing no endorsements of deceased, and also to permit defendant to testify that they represented payments made to deceased. The judgment will be affirmed.

Affirmed.

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