Lance v. Calvert

Citations

• 21 Pa. Super. 102
• 1902 Pa. Super. LEXIS 315

Syllabus

<p>Promissory, note — Filling in date — Joint maker.</p> <p>When one who has signed a note, leaving the date blank, delivers it in that condition to a joint maker for the purpose of raising money upon it, he thereby impliedly authorizes that joint maker to fill in the date as of the time when the note is actually negotiated.</p> <p>In an action on a joint note where the appearance of the note indicated that the date had not been written at the time when the first joint maker signed the note, and the plaintiff testified that the second signer brought the note to him and filled in the blank at his request, and there is testimony that the first joint maker was subsequently shown the note and said that he had signed it and made no objection as to the date, there is sufficient evidence to warrant the jury in finding that the first joint maker had ratified and adopted the instrument in the condition in which it was when presented to him.</p>