Municipal Court of the City of Providence v. Kirby

This is an action of debt on a bond purporting to have been made by John M. Brennan, guardian of Julia Donahue, with Ellen E. Brennan and Isaac Kirby as sureties. Isaac Kirby, being called as a witness by the plaintiff, denied that he had signed the bond. Thereupon the plaintiff produced certain signatures which were admitted by defendant's counsel to have been made by the said Kirby, and called one Henry W. Small, who, after examination as to his qualifications, was allowed to testify as an expert in handwriting. To the testimony of this witness the defendant excepted, and now urges Ms…