Brown v. Thomas
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Culpeper county, in an action of debt. Judgment for the defendant. Plaintiff assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtSims, J.
Upon the assignment of error in this case only two questions are presented for our determination, namely:
1. Did the plaintiff have the authority to complete the note sued on by filling up the blanks therein as he did?
2. Were the blanks in the note sued on filled up “within a reasonable time” ?
The rule at common law was that, if, at the time an incomplete instrument was negotiated to a holder for value, the latter was without notice of any limitation upon the authority to complete the instrument, other than was given *768by the incomplete instrument itself, the person who signed the incomplete…
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