Sankey v. Cook
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Jasper District Cow-t. — llos. D. Ryaw, Judge. This is a proceeding in probate by which it is sought to establish the liability of the estate of defendant’s testator on a lost written contract. From the action of the district court allowing the claim, the defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtCtKANGEE, J.
I. The defendant is the adminis-tratrix of the estate of S. C. Cook, deceased. The con-tract l proof of expert teltf by0ooinPp™i-son on which recovery is sought was executed by S. C. Cook to the plaintiff and was lost, while being used in the taking of certain depositions in another case at Wichita, Kansas. The pleadings put in issue the genuineness of the signature of S. C. Cook to the contract. *127One W. S. Walton was used by the plaintiff as' an expert to testify to the genuineness of the signature to the contract by comparison. The standard for comparison was a letter signed, “ S. C. Cook,”…
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