First National Bank v. Hovell

This was a suit brought by appellant against appellee and one O. J. Beam, upon a note for 81,000. Appellee denied his signature to the note and this was the principal question submitted to the jury.

It is urged that the court below erred in admitting improper evidence upon the question of the genuineness of the signature. Oliver Crissy, a witness called for appellee, stated that he had never seen appellee write; that in January or Febru. ary, 1885, at a time when appellee was disputing signatures, appellee took from his pocket five notes, exhibited them to the witness and others and admitted…