20-11-109 - Copy of lost paper.

20-11-109. Copy of lost paper.

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.]