Clem Lumber Co. v. Barnett

WILLIAMS, Justice.

In the findings of fact filed, the court found that at the time J. M. Barnett, defendant below, signed and delivered the note payable to Clem Lumber Company, plaintiff below, being the note sued upon, “There was no provision in the note as to any rate of interest; that after the note was signed and delivered, it was altered and changed by the insertion of the figure ‘8’ in the blank space where no rate of interest was provided;” and “that the note was materially altered and changed after insertion and delivery thereof, without the consent and knowledge of J. M. Barnett.” The…