Case Name: Macubbin v. Lovell
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1804-07
Citations: 1 Cranch 184
Docket Number: 
Parties: Macubbin v. Lovell.
Judges: Kilty, C. J., absent.
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 1
Pages: 184–184

Head Matter:
Macubbin v. Lovell.
Comparison of handwriting is not evidence.
Mr. Peacock, for the 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.
"Refused.
Kilty, C. J., absent.

Opinion:
See Peake's L. E. 68, 69,TO.
S. P. Watterstone v. Cook, at the same term.