Gray

This action was brought to recover a balance claimed to be due for the use of teams and teamsters furnished by plaintiff to defendants at their request. Plaintiff recovered judgment, and this appeal is from the judgment and thé order denying defendants’ motion for a new trial.

There is only one question discussed in the briefs, and that is as to the ruling of the court in admitting, over the objection of defendants, a certain book called a work-book, containing the names of certain teamsters, the dates and number of loads hauled, the place from which and to where the loads were taken and the name of the persons for whom the hauling was done—the account in this case being a charge against defendants.

Plaintiff called as a witness one Milestone, who testified that he was in the employ of the plaintiff as bookkeeper during the time the teams were claimed to have been furnished, and that he kept the accounts and a full set of books—a workbook, ledger, cash-book, journal and check-book; that the workbook shown him contained entries of the work performed entered from a memorandum paper into the work-book, and that the work-book was correctly kept so far as he knew; that it was his…