Single-Page Spreadsheet Doesn’t Satisfy Business Records Rule (Illinois 2nd Dist.)

In In Re Estate of Good, 2013 IL App (2d) 120875-U,  the Second District strictly construed the business records hearsay exception and held that a single-page spreadsheet (the “Spreadsheet”), prepared specifically for litigation by one of the parties from various print and electronic sources, didn’t satisfy the business records admissibility rules. Facts: The plaintiff real estate auction company sued …