Foster v. Allshouse

Citations

• 222 Pa. 446
• 71 A. 915
• 1909 Pa. LEXIS 893

Syllabus

<p>Evidence — Witness—Party dead — Judgment note — Forgery—Act of May 23, 1887, sec. 5, d. (e), P. L. 158.</p> <p>Where the payee of a judgment note who is also one of the makers of the note assigns the note to another, and thereafter dies, another of the makers of the note is incompetent under the Act of May 23, 1887, sec. 5, cl. (e), P. L. 158, to testify that he did not sign the note or authorize it to be signed for him, and that his alleged signature was in fact a forgery.</p>