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was refused and an appeal was taken to the District 

 Court of St. Louis Co., at Duluth, and it was tried in No- 

 vember last. It seems that after the contract was made 

 Mrs. Hulett lost it and did not find it until three or four 

 months after Mr. Hulett's death. 



During the interval between his death and the finding 

 of the paper, she denied to one or two persons that she 

 was married, but admitted at the same time she had lost 

 a very valuable paper which if she could find would make 

 everything right. The fact that she denied that she was 

 married, was brought up at the trial as tending to show 

 that a marriage had never taken place, but the paper had 

 been made up by her to substantiate her claim to dower. 

 On the trial the principal expert for the plaintifi" was 

 Henry L. Tolman, of Chicago, who testified that the at- 

 testation clause and the name of Mr. Hulett were gen- 

 uine. 



According to the laws of Minnesota, it is competent to 

 introduce in evidence any papers proved to be genuine 

 writings or signatures of the person whose name is al- 

 leged to have been forged, which may be used for com- 

 parison with the contested document. Under this ruling 

 a number of checks, letters and other papers were in- 

 troduced. Mr. Hulett's handwriting was very peculiar 

 in the fact it varied not only from time to time, but in 

 the same letter to a very unusual extent. He would 

 often commence a sentence in a backhand, then write a 

 vertical hand and then end with a running hand, and his 

 variations in angle or slant and form and size of letters, 

 and the like, was so great as to render it very diflicult to 

 establish any satisfactory standards of writing. 



In support of his testimony, Mr. Tolman had prepared 

 a copy made with the camera lucida under the micro- 

 scope, of the whole attestation clause including the sig- 

 nature of Mr Hulett. The original was magnified eight 

 diameters and the two lines of writing were thus en- 



