Cresswell v Jackson
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judgment Date | 01 January 1860 |
| Date | 01 January 1860 |
| Court | High Court |
English Reports Citation: 175 E.R. 942
QUEEN'S BENCH, COMMON PLEAS AND EXCHEQUER
Nottingham Spring Assizes, 1860, coram Pollock, C. B. cresswbll v jackson. (In cross-examination of an attesting witness to a codicil, he denying that it was in his handwriting , other documents admitted by him to be in his writing were allowed to be submitted to the jury for the purpose of comparison of handwriting, under sect 27 of the C L. P Act of 1854.) Issue out of Chancery to try the validity of certain codicils, set up by the plaintiff, and affecting the interest taken by the defendant, devisee under the will The issue had been tried at a former Assizes before Erie, C J Macaulay, Mellor and Field for the plaintiff Hayes, Serjt., Flowers and O'Brien for the defendant A witness who had attested one of the codicils was called on the part of the plaintiff to prove the execution of it by the testator. In cross-examination he was asked whether the handwriting of the codicil was not his own, which he denied Various other writings were then put into his hands, and having been admitted by him, it was proposed, on the part of the defendant, to lay a) See Reg v Reaney, Dears & Bell, C C 151, and Reg v...
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Cases referred to in 1963
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