Case No. 8,928.

MACUBBIN v. LOVELL.

[1 Cranch, C. C. 184.]¹

Circuit Court, District of Columbia.

July Term, 1804.

EVIDENCE—COMPARISON OF 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.

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

¹ [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]

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