Expert determination of ink age on pronote rejected where no reliable scientific method was shown

A defendant seeking to dispute signatures on a pronote and receipt was denied expert examination of the ink's age because no scientific method was available to determine ink age with reliability. The court also treated the request as academic since the defendant's own position was that the signatures were affixed only as a witness and not as a borrower. On that reasoning, expert determination of ink age was not permitted and the revision failed.

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Issues: Whether the defendant was entitled to have the age of the ink on the pronote and receipt examined by an expert for the purpose of disputing the signatures.

Analysis: The application was rejected on the ground that no scientific method was available to determine the age of ink. The plea was also treated as academic because the defendant's own stand was that the signatures were affixed as a witness and not as a borrower.

Conclusion: The defendant was not entitled to expert determination of the age of the ink, and the revision failed.

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