{"id":7118,"date":"2019-06-11T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/?p=7118"},"modified":"2019-06-09T12:50:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T12:50:51","slug":"illinois-appellate-court-examines-business-records-hearsay-exception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-examines-business-records-hearsay-exception\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois Appellate Court Examines Business Records Hearsay Exception"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utlx.com\/\">Union Tank Car Co.<\/a> relied on business records of third parties without any testimony from employees of those other companies to quantify damages caused by a breach of lease for 47 railcars.<\/p>\n<p>An appeal was taken to the Illinois Appellate Court from a $1.27 million judgment entered in a Cook County bench trial. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/research\/stocks\/private\/snapshot.asp?privcapId=300983744\">NuDevco Partners<\/a> guaranteed the lease and argued that the trial court was wrong in ruling that Union Tank satisfied the requirement for the business records exception to the hearsay rule. NuDevco also claimed that the best-evidence-rule barred testimony about Union Tank\u2019s wire transfers in payments to third parties.<\/p>\n<p>The tankers were for shipping petroleum. The lessee, a subsidiary company of NuDevco, stopped paying rent and shipped the tankers back to Union Tank. To prove up freight, switching and storing charges, Union Tank presented invoices from its vendors, plus testimony from its director of fleet repair and the general manager of the lease division about receipts and payment of the bills.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-examines-business-records-hearsay-exception\/#more-7118\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Tank Car Co. relied on business records of third parties without any testimony from employees of those other companies to quantify damages caused by a breach of lease for 47 railcars. An appeal was taken to the Illinois Appellate Court from a $1.27 million judgment entered in a Cook County bench trial. NuDevco Partners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41,134,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breach-of-contract","category-commercial-litigation","category-contract-litigation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Illinois Appellate Court Examines Business Records Hearsay Exception &#8212; Chicago Injury Lawyer Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Union Tank Car Co. relied on business records of third parties without any testimony from employees of those other companies to quantify damages caused by\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/illinois-appellate-court-examines-business-records-hearsay-exception\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Illinois Appellate Court Examines Business Records Hearsay Exception &#8212; 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