Wilber v. Gillespie’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “"The precise evidence excluded in the case at bar was evidence of a transaction between the plaintiff and the decedent, by which the plaintiff derived impressions or information from the conduct of the decedent. The conduct was his writing his name in her presence a sufficient number of times to produce in her mind an impression or information from which, upon being shown another piece of paper, she would be qualified to testify that in her opinion it was the same handwriting with which she had familiarized herself in a transaction with him. In my opinion the evidence was properly excluded." ( 112 N.Y.S. at 25 ).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 177 So. 2d 497 - Matthews v. Matthews