Hackett v. First National Bank
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 27 — Action by the First National Bank of Louisville v. J. L. Hackett on a Note. — Dec. 2. APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, COMMON PLEAS DIVISION. Judgment for Plaintiff and Defendant Appeals.
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Case 27 — Action by the First National Bank of Louisville v. J. L. Hackett on a Note. — Dec. 2. APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, COMMON PLEAS DIVISION. Judgment for Plaintiff and Defendant Appeals. POINTS AND AUTHORITIES. 1. The maker of an incomplete instrument — one with blank spaces in which nothing is written — will not, as a general rule, be released because of alterations made by filling these blank spaces; but if each space is utilized for its proper purpose, though not entirely filled, it is a complete instrument, and any material alteration caused by inserting other words in the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
JUDGE HO'BSON
— Affirmino.
Joseph Clark applied to the appellant, J. L. Haekett, to go his surety on a note for $500, payable at the American National Bank of Louisville, Kv. Haekett agreed to do so, and signed the note drawn by Clark for $500, but there was a space left in the note before the words “five hundred” and after them, and Clark- filled up the first space with the word “twenty” and the other with the -words “and fifty,” so as to make the note read as one' for $2,550. There was nothing on the face of the instrument to indicate the alteration, and Clark then…
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