L. Grossman Sons, Inc. v. Rudderham

The plaintiff, the payee of a promissory note, obtained a finding in an action against the maker, and the Appellate Division dismissed a report. The note *699bore the signature as an attesting witness of one Palmer, a former employee of the plaintiff corporation, who died long before the trial. The defence was that the note was altered after its execution by the unauthorized addition of the signature of Palmer as a witness. Mindell v. Goldman, 309 Mass. 472, 474.

The fact that Palmer undertook to sign as an attesting witness warranted the inference that he did so regularly and properly with the…