Fitch v. Martin

Ames, C.

This is an appeal to the district court from a judgment of a county court disallowing a claim against thé estate of a deceased person. After the trial had proceeded so far that the cause had been submitted to the jury for deliberation upon their verdict, the claimant or plaintiff was accused of having secretly and fraudulently made a material alteration in an alleged book of accounts of transactions between himself and the deceased, after it had been offered and received as documentary evidence in the progress of the trial. The trial judge thereupon, with the aid of a committee of…