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.