Article 145 — Court may send for records

(1). The court may of its own motion or on the application of any d the parties to a suit, send for either from its own records or from any other court, the record of any other suit or proceeding, and inspect the same. (2) Unless otherwise directed, an application under su~art. (I) studl CIVIL PROCEDURE CODE 49 show how the record is material to the suit ir which the applica- tion is made, and that the applicant cannot without unreasonable delay or expense obtain a duly authenticated copy of the record or of such parts, thereof as the applicant requires, or that the pro- duction of the original is necessary for the purposes of justice. (3). Nothing in this Article shall be deemed to enable the court to use in evidence any document which under the law of evidence would be inadmissible in the suit.