Wolferman v. Bell

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dunbar, C. J.

It would be profitless in this case to undertake to review the authorities, for they are numerous and irreconcilable; some courts holding that an alteration of the face of a writing raises no presumption either way, but that the question is one for the jury. Other courts have held that the alteration raises the presumption that it was made before delivery; others that in such cases the *85presumption attaches that the change was made after delivery, and that it must he explained before it is received in evidence. Still others, that it raises…