Farmers & Merchants State Bank v. Huss

The evidence tends to show that the payees of the note offered the note to the bank for purchase. The acting cashier, Oliver Stenberg, said that the bank could not handle the note because it ran for two years and it could not accept any note running for more than one year-. The payees gave assurance that they would pay the note within a year, whereupon Stenberg wrote the word “one” over the word “two.” He testified that he did this not with any intention of altering tire note so as to enable the bank to *660enforce the same against the maker before two years from the date thereof, but to indicate…