Cook v. Parks

Two cases, involving the same parties, similar instruments, the same facts and circumstances, and the same questions, are presented to the court and may be determined together. In each of the two chattel-mortgage foreclosures, the defendant’s *750affidavit of illegality set up as a defense that the instrument had been rendered void by the fact that, at the time of its execution, only one witness, not an official, appeared on each instrument, and that it had been materially altered without consent of the maker by adding the names of two witnesses, one a notary public, neither of whom was present…