Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1874

Demerritt v. Randall

Demerritt v. Randall
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided November 21, 1874 · Gray
116 Mass. 331; 1874 Mass. LEXIS 99

Demerritt v. Randall

Opinion of the Court

Gray, C. J.

The experts were rightly permitted to testify to their opinion of the genuineness of the signature of the testatrix, and to their reasons for such opinion. Moody v. Rowell, 17 Pick. 490. Commonwealth v. Webster, 5 Cush. 295. Keith v. Lothrop, 10 Cush. 453.

How many times the same question should be repeated on cross-examination, and how far the witness should be compelled to answer, were matters within the discretion of the presiding judge, and not subjects of exception. Exceptions overruled.

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