Supreme Court of Alabama January 15, 1828 (Cloud v. Patterson)

By JUDGE WHITE.

The question is, whether the Court erred in the opinion given on the trial as stated ? We think not. There ivas written, and therefore, superior evidence of the contract of sale admitted to exist, than that offered by the defen*395dant below. Hence it was right to exclude the latter, until the nonproduction of the former was accounted for in a way recognized by law.