McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. v. Blair

This is a suit for the balance dne on the purchase price of a harvesting machine. Plaintiff recovered and defendant prosecutes the appeal. The purchase of the machine is admitted and so, too, is the indebtedness sued for, but defendant insists he may not be required to respond for the balance due on the purchase price because plaintiff fraudulently altered without his consent, certain notes given therefor.

It appears defendant purchased the harvesting machine from plaintiff in the summer of 1902 at the agreed price of $105. A few months thereafter he executed to plaintiff his three promissory…