. Penman's Art Journal and Penman's Gazette . s yton-session of the great estate. But a farmore extraordinary reiisin for asking forthe change of venue was the bold declara-tion of the conttslants belief that thejudge was prejudiced against them. Imention this as a matttr of record, withDO thought of impugning the judges in-tegrity, but to ^how that the contestantsapprehended in advance that the views ofthe judfje ou raatttra having an importantbearing on their case were not in accord-ance with what they considered theirrights. The motion was denied and thejudges subsetiuent rulings tell their
. Penman's Art Journal and Penman's Gazette . s yton-session of the great estate. But a farmore extraordinary reiisin for asking forthe change of venue was the bold declara-tion of the conttslants belief that thejudge was prejudiced against them. Imention this as a matttr of record, withDO thought of impugning the judges in-tegrity, but to ^how that the contestantsapprehended in advance that the views ofthe judfje ou raatttra having an importantbearing on their case were not in accord-ance with what they considered theirrights. The motion was denied and thejudges subsetiuent rulings tell their ownstory. He did not make the Montana lawrelating to the admissibility of expert testi-mony and is, therefore, not responsible forit, but thire can be no tiucsiiou that if hisconstruction of it is correct, the State ofMoutnna is a vtry paradise for final txchisiou of expert haudwriiingtettimouT, uoltss the expert had actually PLATE \iles l-romWiil. r&.c-iin\iles of Eddyi wnhix^It, ^U^. P-^t^. ^:^!W 04/ ceM^^^^ ctaa^. ^Ml^ ^ ^ f If t- (f^ It- 0 r (/ (y- /- ^ Mr fiA-C^-U-fof, o^ ^a^ejf neither a Gcience, an art nor a opinion also speaks for itself. The ellect of that ruling was just this:Men who for years had made a special busineas of the study of disputed hand-writing and who had investigated withmost pains-taking care the particular writ-ing in dispute were not allowed to open their mouths ou the subject, nor was thejury permitted to contrast any of the dis-puted writing with admittedly genuinewriting and draw their own the other hand, any person who hadever seen one of the parties in questionpen a line of writing was duly ijualified towalk upon the stand, kiss the Bible, andgravely testify that he thought such andsuch writing to be genuine because it coincided with his general recollection ofthe genuine article—as if any forger wouldnot attempt to make his product resemblethe genuine ! As a matter of fact, thishighly edifying
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