Moore v. Palmer

Citations

• 14 Wash. 134
• 44 P. 142
• 1896 Wash. LEXIS 324

Syllabus

<p>INTERROGATORIES OF ADVERSE PARTY — ADMISSIBILITY IN EVIDENCE— EVIDENCE — COMPARISON OF SIGNATURES — TRANSACTIONS WITH DECEDENT— DECLARATIONS OF DECEDENT IN OWN INTEREST — SUFFICIENCY OF EVIDENCE.</p> <p>Answers to interrogatories propounded under Code Proc., § § 1661 et seq. cannot be put in evidence by the party who framed the answers.</p> <p>Upon a question as to the genuineness of a signature, it is competent for experts to make comparison with admittedly, genuine signatures of the same person to papers which are not otherwise properly in evidence in the case.</p> <p>In an action upon a promissory note alleged to have been executed by a decedent, and to which the defense has been set up that it is a forgery, evidence of statements made by decedent at about the time of the date of the note is admissible for the purpose of showing the improbability of his having executed it. (Dunbar, J., dissents.)</p> <p>Where the verdict of the jury is reasonably supported by competent evidence, it will not be disturbed upon appeal.</p>