Hagan v. Carr
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 151, Jan. T., 1900, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. No. 2, Phila Co., Dec. T., 1898, No. 84, on verdict for plaintiff, in case of Sarah Ann Hagan v. George Bradford Carr and George Y. Schoch, Executors of John A. English, deceased. Assumpsit on a promissory note for $10,000. Before Wilt-bank, J. At the trial it appeared that the note in suit was dated March 7, 1895, and purported to have been signed by John A. English.
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Appeal, No. 151, Jan. T., 1900, by defendants, from judgment of C. P. No. 2, Phila Co., Dec. T., 1898, No. 84, on verdict for plaintiff, in case of Sarah Ann Hagan v. George Bradford Carr and George Y. Schoch, Executors of John A. English, deceased. Assumpsit on a promissory note for $10,000. Before Wilt-bank, J. At the trial it appeared that the note in suit was dated March 7, 1895, and purported to have been signed by John A. English. It appeared that English died on July 30, 1898. Suit was brought on November 29, 1898. The defense was that the note was a forgery. Persifor Frazer, an expert…
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Opinion by
Mb. Justice Bbown,
The issue in the court below was as to the genuineness of the signature of John A. English, deceased. As is usual in this class of cases, experts were called, and Dr. Persifor Frazer was examined as such. From reasons which he gave in detail to the jury, his conclusion was, and he so testified, that the signature to the note in controversy was not the handwriting of the person who had signed certain checks submittted to him and bearing the genuine signatures of the deceased. In reaching this conclusion the witness relied upon a theory which he undertook to explain…
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