California Court of Appeal

In a breach of contract and fraud action, trial court's exclusion of plaintiff's documentary evidence and judgment in favor of defendant is reversed where: 1) altered poultry condemnation certificates were authenticated and were not hearsay as they were introduced as the operative documents establishing the fraud perpetrated on plaintiff; 2) the unaltered certificates obtained from the USDA were properly authenticated and admissible as official records; 3) the purchase orders were properly authenticated and admissible as business records; 4) calculation sheets were admissible as admissions by a party opponent; and 5) weight slips were admissible as adoptive admissions.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/27/2009
• Published 05/27/2009

Judges

• MANELLA, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John Theodore Dean, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Atkinson, Andelson, Loya Rudd & Romo, Edward C. Ho, Nancy Long Coleand James Palmer, Cerritos, for Defendants and Respondents.