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

(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.