Iowa Code
Iowa Code § 622.25 (2026)
Handwriting
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Evidence respecting handwriting may be given by experts, by comparison, or by comparison by the jury, with writings of the same person which are proved to be genuine. [C51, §2404; R60, §3997; C73, §3655; C97, §4620; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §11278; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §622.25]
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cases, 1954–2020 · leading case: Mary E. Roth & Michael A. Roth, Individually & as Coexecutors of the Est. of Cletus Roth, Anna M. Roth, Individually, & Bradley E. Roth, Individually v. the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Soc'y D/B/A Good Samaritan Soc'y - George, 886 N.W.2d 601 (Iowa 2016).
Mary E. Roth & Michael A. Roth, Individually & as Coexecutors of the Est. of Cletus Roth, Anna M. Roth, Individually, & Bradley E. Roth, Individually v. the Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Soc'y D/B/A Good Samaritan Soc'y - George, 886 N.W.2d 601 (Iowa 2016). “” Iowa Code § 622.25 (2015). A judge conducting a bench trial surely has the- same authority to compare handwriting.”
State v. Uthe, 542 N.W.2d 810 (Iowa 1996). “Iowa Code section 622.25 provides: Evidence respecting handwriting may be given by experts, by comparison, or by comparison by the jury, with writings of the same person which are proved to be genuine.”
State v. Meeks, 65 N.W.2d 76 (Iowa 1954). “See section 622.25, Code of Iowa, 1950. For a complete and exhaustive opinion relating to opinion evidence, see Grismore v.”
State v. Entsminger, 160 N.W.2d 480 (Iowa 1968). “On the other side, if he admitted ownership he would incriminate himself since the State would introduce into evidence his conversation with Dawson in order to satisfy the requirements of Code section 622.25 as to genuineness. He contends he had no choice, this was coercion put…”
Northrup v. Miles Homes, Inc. of Iowa, 204 N.W.2d 850 (Iowa 1973). “This was in accordance with § 622.25, The Code, which provides, “Evidence respecting handwriting may be given * * * by comparison by the jury with writings of the same person which are proved to be genuine.”
State v. Grove, 171 N.W.2d 519 (Iowa 1969). “The objection is solely on the ground that Barton compared defendant’s signature on the check with other instruments purporting to bear defendant’s signature, some of which were not admitted into evidence.”
Nelson v. Nelson, 87 N.W.2d 767 (Iowa 1958). “handwriting experts’ *644 testimony expressed in the early cases was the fact that in the early days of the handwriting experts, their opinion was not fortified by or with modern methods of examination and comparisons but consisted almost entirely of the bare statement of the…”
State v. Streit, 80 N.W.2d 318 (Iowa 1957). “On these, the best expert would be a counterfeiter, and the next best, men employed in banks * '* Section 622.25, Code of Iowa, 1954, provides: “Evidence *263 respecting handwriting may be given by experts, by comparison, or by comparison by the jury, with writings of the same…”
State v. Cooper, 180 N.W.2d 424 (Iowa 1970). “Section 622.25 provides: “Evidence respecting handwriting may be given by experts, by comparison * * * with writings of the same person which are proved to be genuine.”
Amended December 30, 2016 Mary E. Roth & Michael A. Roth, Individually & as Coexecutors of the Est. of Cletus Roth, Anna M. Roth, Individually, & Bradley E. Roth, Individually v. The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Soc'y D/B/A Good Samaritan Soc'y - George (Iowa 2016). “” Iowa Code § 622.25 (2015). A judge conducting a bench trial surely has the same authority to compare handwriting.”
Ncjc, Inc. v. Wmg, L.C. (Iowa Ct. App. 2020). “And when parties include a legal term of art in their contract, Iowa courts presume the parties “fully 1As will be explained, though, enforcement is limited by other code sections like section 622.25 and, apparently, section 677.”
State of Iowa v. King P. Flowers (Iowa Ct. App. 2014). “See Iowa Code § 622.25 (2011). We find the uniqueness of Flowers’s name, his date of birth, and the handwriting analysis were sufficient to establish Flowers’s status as a habitual offender.”
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