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78 Fla. 70

Boyd v. Gosser

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided July 1, 1919

Supreme Court of Florida · decided 1919-07-01

<p>The genuineness of a signature may be ascertained by comparison of the disputed signature with an admittedly genuine, one, and when upon such comparison the two signatures are so much alike in the many features of their construction that they agree or correspond in lines, angles,- slant and space occupied, the fact of such correspondence is deemed to be evidence of highly probative value that one is a tracing of the other, .or a drawing from a model.</p>

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 1933

4 state decisions

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decree reversed · Decided 1919-07-01

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Whitfield, J.,

¶1dissenting. — The Chancellor specifically found “that W. T. Boyd, in his life time, made and entered into the two contracts in writing with the complainant,” and “that the complainant, in the life time of the said W. T. Boyd, made to • him the payments in the said bills of complaint alleged.” While the evidence on these material points is conflicting, there is ample evidence to sustain the specific findings, and such findings do not clearly appear to be contrary to, but to be in accordance with, the preponderating weight and probative force of the evidence considered as an entirety. As a necessary consequence, the de: cree appealed from is “such a decree as the court below .ought to have given,” within the requirements of Section 1707, General Statutes, 1906, Florida Compiled Laws, 1914.

West, J.,

¶2dissenting. — Applying the well-settled rule that the findings of the Chancellor on the evidence will not be disturbed unless such findings of fact are clearly shown to be erroneous, I am still of the opinion that there is ample evidence in the record to support the decree of the Chancellor as was held in the original opinion and therefore dissent from the opinion filed upon the rehearing in the case.

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