Case ID: njl_3/html/0116-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CRISSMAN against SCHOONOVER.
    ON CERTIORARI.
    The action below was brought on a note of hand. The justice certified on the trial of the cause before him, that no witness was sworn; but that papers in the handwriting of the defendant was delivered to [*] the jury, to compare them with the note on which the action was brought, from which the jury inferred that the note was in the handwriting of the defendant. On this evidence alone, the jury rendered a verdict for the plaintiff below.
   By the Court.

Without giving any opinion how far comparison of handwriting can be given in evidence in civil causes, we are clear that this proceeding cannot be supported; at least the papers shown to the jury, ought to have been proved to- be in the handwriting of the defendant below, before they could be given to the jury.

Judgment reversed.