Throckmorton v. Holt
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. This was a proceeding in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia for the purpose of proving an alleged will of the late Joseph Holt, a distinguished lawyer and for many years Judge Advocate General of the United States Army, who died at the age of eighty-seven, in Washington on August 1, 1894, after a residence of many years in that city.
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ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. This was a proceeding in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia for the purpose of proving an alleged will of the late Joseph Holt, a distinguished lawyer and for many years Judge Advocate General of the United States Army, who died at the age of eighty-seven, in Washington on August 1, 1894, after a residence of many years in that city. The proceeding resulted in the rejection of the paper on the gr'ound that it was not the will of Judge Holt but was a forged document, and judgment refusing probate was entered upon the verdict…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Peokham
Before proceeding to a discussion of the more important questions involved in this case we will refer to two decisions of the trial court upon questions of evidence, in which we think there was error.
The witness, P. Tecumseh Sherman, had been called by the proponents of the will for the purpose of proving the signature of his mother, Mrs. Ellen B. E. Sherman, and had stated that in his opinion the signature on the paper was genuine. He did not testify as to the genuineness of the. signature of his father, as Senator John Sherman, the brother of the General, had testified that in his opinion…
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