If an original process, pleading or paper in a cause is lost or withheld by any person, the court may, at any stage of the suit, authorize its place to be supplied by a copy to be used instead of the original.
Code 1858, § 2876; Shan., § 4596; mod. Code 1932, § 8720; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-1515.
Textbooks. Tennessee Jurisprudence, 18 Tenn. Juris., Lost Instruments and Records, § 12.
The General Sessions Court (Hall), § 178.
Cited: Pennington v. General Motors Corp., 49 Tenn. App. 240, 354 S.W.2d 479, 1961 Tenn. App. LEXIS 108 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1961).