Winkles v. Guenther & Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Complaint on note. Before Judge Janes. Polk superior court. February term, 1895.
1Opinion of the Court
Lumpkin, Justice.
An action upon a promissory note for $126.50 was brought by Guenther & Company against Winkles. He filed a plea of non est factum, and also a pléa alleging that without his knowledge or consent the note, after he had *473signed it, had, with intent to defraud him, been altered by the owner, or some one having an interest in it, by changing the word “four” to the word “six,” thus making it a note for $126.50 instead of $124.50, as it was when signed. The evidence showed that the note as originally-written was for the latter amount, but was decidedly conflicting as to when the…
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