Elgin v. Hall

Citations

• 82 Va. 680
• 1886 Va. LEXIS 88

Syllabus

<p>1. Instruments—Alteration—Burden of explanation.—Every alteration on face of written instrument detracts from its credit and makes it suspicious ; and this suspicion party claiming under it is ordinarily bound to remove. Priest v. Whitacre, 78 Va. 151.</p> <p>2. Idem—Case at bar.—The alterations on face of receipts offered in evidence by defendant, render them worthless, he not having explained them.</p>