Case ID: dc_1/html/0250-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "But the Court", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Hopkins v. Simmons.
    The opinion of a witness (who has seen the party sign a paper) that another paper is also in the handwriting of the same party is competent evidence, although his opinion is the result of comparison.
    Assumpsit. The defendant offered in evidence an account, said to be in the plaintiff’s handwriting; and Robert Ellis, a witness, testified that he saw the plaintiff sign a certain receipt; and that, by comparing the account with the signature to the receipt, he believed the account to be in the plaintiff’s handwriting.
    
      Mr. Key
    
    objected, on the authority of Peake’s Law of Evidence, p. 69, that comparison of hands is no evidence in any case.
   But the Court

admitted the evidence.