Talbott v. Hedge

This is an appeal from a judgment allowing a claim in favor of Martha J. Hedge against John E. Talbott, administrator of the estate of Isabel Durham, deceased, based upon a promissory note alleged to have been executed by the decedent.

The execution of the note was the only contested question of fact upon the trial, and all of the questions relied upon for a reversal of the judgment arise under the motion for a new trial.

It is first insisted that the court below allowed the note to be read to the jury before its execution had been sufficiently proved. Preliminary to the reading of.the note…