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From: wiso@ihnss.UUCP (Jack Wisowaty)
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Legal question on signatures
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Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 10:27:28 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 26 10:27:28 1985
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A friend of mine has a complete scrawl for a signature, essentially no
recognizable letters in it.  Yet he is perfectly consistent about it and
has all of his identification with that signature on it.  He enjoys telling
a story of a motel owner in Arkansas who refused to accept his scrawl as
a proper signature on a credit card receipt.  She insisted that he write
it so that she could read it.  After getting nowhere trying to explain that
if she could read it it wouldn't be his real signature and the credit card
company would bounce the transaction, he acquiesced and signed with his
left-hand (he's right-handed) a signature befitting a first-grader where
all the letter could be read.  She accepted it, the credit-card company
didn't and he had a free night's stay.

Sounds to me like you should just smile and say "whatever you want" when
someone tells you to sign the "wrong" signature to something.

Jack Wioswaty
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