Photograph
Defined in 1 dictionary — Bouvier (1914)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
The mechanical process of photography is judicially recognized as a means of producing true likenesses which are admissible in evidence in the trial of civil and criminal cases. The difference between the images produced upon a photographic plate and upon the human eye does not render a photograph inadmissible in evidence, but bears only upon the effect of such evidence; 1 Greenl. Ev. 92; Scott v. New Orleans, 75 Fed. 373, 21 C. C. A. 402; Maclean v. Scripps, 52 Mich. 214, 17 N. W. 815, 18 N. W. 209. A photograph of the suhjectmatter in controversy is admissible in evidence, when proved to have been fairly taken; Cowley v. People, 83 N. Y. 464, 38 Am. Rep. 464; Chicago, B. & Q. R. Co. v. TJpton, 194 Fed. 371, 115 C. C. A. 379; Church v. Milwaukee, 31 Wis. 512; Franklin v. State, (59 Ga. 42, 47 Am. Rep. 748; Kansas City, M. & B. R. Co. v. Smith, 90 Ala. 25, 8 South. 43, 24 Am. St. Rep. 753; Udderzook v. Com., 76 Fa. 340; In re Jessup, 81 Cal. 408, 21 Pac. 97G, 22 Pac. 742, 1028, 6 L. It. A. 594; Barker v. Perry, 67 la. 146, 25 N. W. 100; Ordway v. Haynes, 50