Temple v. Smith
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the District Court for the Parish of Morehouse. Sharp, J. When a party denies his signature or his writing, (as in this instance,) it maybe proved in three different ways, either by persons who saw him write it, or by persons who have frequently seen him write and sign his name, or by comparison.
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APPEAL from the District Court for the Parish of Morehouse. Sharp, J. When a party denies his signature or his writing, (as in this instance,) it maybe proved in three different ways, either by persons who saw him write it, or by persons who have frequently seen him write and sign his name, or by comparison. O. P. art. 325. C. C. 2241. 2 M. R. 212. 3 M. R. 350. 9 L. R. 405. 15 L. R. 173. Plaintiff could not be restricted to the manner of making the proof, because the latter clause of art. 325, C. P. expressly declares, that the proof by witnesses shall not exclude the proof by experts or…
1Opinion of the Court
By the court:
Slidell, J.
The petition alleges in substance, that the defendant enticed, harbored, and carried away a slave belonging to the plaintiff, with the intention of depriving him of his property, and claims damages to the amount of the value of the slave. There was a verdict and judgment for the defendaut in the court below, and the plaintiff has appealed.
The most material matter to bo considered in the present condition of the cause is, the ruling of the district judge on a question of evidence. When the negro was apprehended, after his disappearance from his master’s abode, by the…
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