Lauer v. Posey
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 220, Oct. T., 1899, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Berks Co., Dec. T., 1893, No. 7, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Frank P. Lauer v. Elizabeth Posey. Assumpsit on two promissory notes by indorsee against maker.
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Appeal, No. 220, Oct. T., 1899, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. Berks Co., Dec. T., 1893, No. 7, on verdict for plaintiff in case of Frank P. Lauer v. Elizabeth Posey. Assumpsit on two promissory notes by indorsee against maker. Before Endlich, J. The defense was that the notes had been raised from $100 to $400. When J. H. Jacobs was on the stand the following offer was made: Mr. Deysher: It is proposed to show by the witness on the stand that he received from Charles H. Tyson papers from the office of A. Harvey Tyson, among which was a sheet or slip of paper in the handwriting of A.…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
William W. Porter, J.,
The defendant offered in effect to prove by a witness that the latter had seen a paper in the hand writing of the payee of the notes sued upon, upon which were written words and letters similar to those alleged, to be changed in the notes in suit, for the purpose of showing that the payee was practicing to carry on the forgery alleged to have been perpetrated in the notes in suit. It is to be observed that the paper upon which these writings were said to have been made, was not produced or offered in evidence. In Wheeler v. Ahlers, 189 Pa. 138, a card was…
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