St. Louis National Bank v. Hoffman
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from the St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. Jacob Klein, Judge. The circuit court was right in excluding the checks signed by the defendant, which the plaintiff offered in evidence, and desired to use as standards of comparison with the signatures on the check in dispute; and its action afforded no ground for sustaining plaintiff’s motion for'new trial. Grreenl. on Ev., secs. 580,581; Tome v. R. R., 39 Md. 36; Peckv.
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Appeal from the St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. Jacob Klein, Judge. The circuit court was right in excluding the checks signed by the defendant, which the plaintiff offered in evidence, and desired to use as standards of comparison with the signatures on the check in dispute; and its action afforded no ground for sustaining plaintiff’s motion for'new trial. Grreenl. on Ev., secs. 580,581; Tome v. R. R., 39 Md. 36; Peckv. Callaghan, 95 N. Y. 74, in which the statute ¿mending the common law rule (substantially the same as our Missouri amendment) is construed. State v. Minton, 116 Mo. 605;…
1Opinion of the CourtBond, J.
— On the sixteenth of November, 1895, plaintiff sued defendant for $2,149.44, alleged to be *206due it from her on account of the payment of that sum upon a check signed and indorsed by John Hoffman, the husband of defendant, which signature and indorsement plaintiff alleged were fraudulently signed and affixed to said check by the defendant. The defendant admitted all the allegations of the petition, except the charge of forgery against her. There was a trial of this issue and evidence tending to support the allegations of the petition, and also tending to support defendant’s denial in her…
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