Case Name: MACUBBIN v. LOVELL
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1804-07
Citations: 16 F. Cas. 349
Docket Number: 
Parties: MACUBBIN v. LOVELL.
Judges: KILTY, Chief Judge, absent.
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 16
Pages: 349–349

Head Matter:
Case No. 8,928.
MACUBBIN v. LOVELL.
[1 Cranch, C. C. 184.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
July Term, 1804.
Evidence — Comparison op Handwriting.
Comparison of handwriting is not evidence.
Mr. Peacock, for plaintiff,
having proved that on a note filed in another case the plaintiff had confessed judgment, prayed the court to suffer the jury to compare a receipt purporting to be signed by the plaintiff with the said note and from thence to infer that the signature was in his handwriting.

Opinion:
Refused.
KILTY, Chief Judge, absent.
See Peake, Ev. 68-70, s. p. Watterstone v. Cook [unreported], at the same term.