Little v. Rogers

1. Promissory notes found among the papers of an illiterate deceased person, purporting to have been signed by him with his mark and which he had paid, are, on the trial of an action against his administrator upon another promissory note also purporting to have been signed by the intestate with his mark, admissible in evidence for the purpose of comparing the marks on these notes with that affixed to the note in suit, the defense to the action being that this latter note was a forgery. The genuineness of the marks upon the notes offered for this purpose might be inferred from the facts above…