German-American Bank v. Manning
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court.— Hon. Geo. H. Shields, Judge. (1) Drawing a line through the name designating the boundary without erasing it, and uniting over it another name, does not in law constitute an alteration. An alteration is an act done upon the instrument by which its meaning or language is changed.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court.— Hon. Geo. H. Shields, Judge. (1) Drawing a line through the name designating the boundary without erasing it, and uniting over it another name, does not in law constitute an alteration. An alteration is an act done upon the instrument by which its meaning or language is changed. If what is written upon or erased from the instrument has no tendency to produce this result or to mislead any person, it is not an alteration. 1 Greenleaf on Evidence, section 566; 2 Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure, 142-3; Morrill v. Otis, 32 N. H. 472; Moore v. Bank, 22 Mo.…
1Opinion of the CourtGoode, J.
This is an action on a special taxbill for street improvements against a lot in the city of St. Louis. The petition alleges defendant Ella E. Manning Avas the OAvner of the lot at the date of the bill, and describes the property as the Avest twenty-nine feet, two inches of lot 28 and the east ten inches of lot 27 of Raymond Place, in the city of St. Louis, fronting thirty feet on the south line of Page Boulevard, by a depth southAvardly of 137 feet 6 inches ; bounded north by Page bouleArard, east by Dennis, south by an alley and Avest by the Aetna Loan Company. It is alleged the property…
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