74 Mo. App. 203 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1898
— On the sixteenth of November, 1895, plaintiff sued defendant for $2,149.44, alleged to be
The question presented is, did the reason given by the court for its action justify the award of a new trial? The rule of evidence applicable on the trial of this case as to the point under review is contained in section 8944a, added to the Revised Statutes of 1889, by the act of the legislature, approved April 8, 1895, and contained in the Session Acts of that year, page 284, and is, to wit: “Comparison of a disputed writing with any writing proved to the satisfaction of the judge to be genuine shall be permitted to be made by witnesses, and such writings and the evidence of witnesses respecting the same, may be submitted to the court and jury as evidence of the genuineness or otherwise of the writing in dispute.” The foregoing enactment is a