Legal Opinion

Leland v. Leonard.

Supreme Court of Vermont

Decided January 8, 1921PublishedCited by 9 opinions

Action ok Contract. Pleas, the general issue and payment. Trial by Court at the September Term, 1918, Washington County, Stanton, J., presiding. Judgment for the plaintiff. The defendant excepted. The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the CourtPowers, J.

[1-3] The only exception relied upon is to the admission of a' group of photographs and photographic enlargements of ¡certain disputed signatures. The defendant produced two receipted bills, which purported to bear the plaintiff’s signatures. The latter denied these signatures and insisted that they were forgeries. The court, by whom the case was tried below, so found, relying in part, at least, upon the photographs and enlargements. The only objection to their admission was based upon the facts brought out in the cross-examination of the photographer that they showed certain things not on…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Rowell v. Fuller's EstateSupreme Court of Vermont · 1887
  2. Hassam v. J. E. Safford Lumber Co.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1909
  3. Goulette's Administrator v. Grand Trunk Railway Co.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1919
  4. Thayer v. GlynnSupreme Court of Vermont · 1919
  5. Aldrich v. Boston & Maine RailroadSupreme Court of Vermont · 1917

3Cited by9 opinions

  1. State v. LapanSupreme Court of Vermont · 1928
  2. Adams v. RistineSupreme Court of Virginia · 1924
  3. Dent v. Bellows Falls & Saxtons River Street Railway Co.Supreme Court of Vermont · 1922
  4. Woodcock's Admr. v. HallockSupreme Court of Vermont · 1925
  5. Taylor v. Henderson and SmithSupreme Court of Vermont · 1941

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