Good news for lenders looking to overcome questions about the veracity of their documents supporting foreclosure suits: A ruling from the Fourth District Court of Appeal clarifies that a witness authenticating business records doesn’t have to have prepared those documents in order to survive defense efforts to characterize the evidence as inadmissible hearsay.
That decision played in JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A.’s favor when the appellate panel found the trial judge should not have excluded some of the bank’s evidence after its witness met the standard of being “well enough acquainted with the activity to provide testimony.”
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