{
  "id": 2561464,
  "name": "J. W. Shaffer et al. v. First National Bank of Charleston, Illinois",
  "name_abbreviation": "Shaffer v. First National Bank",
  "decision_date": "1903-04-30",
  "docket_number": "",
  "first_page": "108",
  "last_page": "109",
  "citations": [
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      "type": "official",
      "cite": "109 Ill. App. 108"
    }
  ],
  "court": {
    "name_abbreviation": "Ill. App. Ct.",
    "id": 8837,
    "name": "Illinois Appellate Court"
  },
  "jurisdiction": {
    "id": 29,
    "name_long": "Illinois",
    "name": "Ill."
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  "last_updated": "2023-07-14T15:51:53.684315+00:00",
  "provenance": {
    "date_added": "2019-08-29",
    "source": "Harvard",
    "batch": "2018"
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  "casebody": {
    "judges": [],
    "parties": [
      "J. W. Shaffer et al. v. First National Bank of Charleston, Illinois."
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Mr. Presiding Justice Wright\ndelivered the opinion of the court.\nSuit by defendant in error against plaintiffs in error upon a note for $100, upon which plaintiffs in error were sureties for G. W. Panley. The defense was upon the ground that when plaintiffs in error signed the note W. J. Doty was also one of the sureties, and that his name was subsequently erased without their knowledge or consent, and thereby they were released from liability.\nThe verdict and j udgment were against appellants for $158.41, and this writ of error is designed to reverse the judgment.\nWhen the note was produced at the trial it appeared that W. J. Doty\u2019s name was prefaced by a \u201c J,\u201d a \u201c W \u201d over it, and a line across it. Ho objection was made to the introduction of the note in evidence, and it was so admitted. Plaintiffs in error testified the name was not erased when they signed the note. The officers of the bank knew nothing about the erasure having been made, and from anything that appears in the evidence the scratch upon Doty\u2019s name was a mere accident, intended by no one for an erasure, or for the purpose of releasing him as one of the joint makers of the note, and if this be true, and such inference is as reasonable as any other, plaintiffs in error were not prejudiced.\nThe instruction requiring defendant in error to explain the appearance of the note was properly refused, for it was not called upon, by an objection to the introduction of the note in evidence, to explain the apparent erasure, and the modified instruction was proper. There was no error of instructions. The verdict was right under the evidence and the judgment will be affirmed.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "Mr. Presiding Justice Wright"
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "R. G. Hammond and A. C. Anderson, attorneys for plaintiffs in error.",
      "A. J. Fryer, attorney for defendant in error."
    ],
    "corrections": "",
    "head_matter": "J. W. Shaffer et al. v. First National Bank of Charleston, Illinois.\n1. Instructions\u2014Requiring Party to Explain Instrument Introduced in Evidence Without Objection.\u2014An instruction requiring the plaintiff to explain the appearance of a note introduced, in evidence without objection, is properly refused.\nAssumpsit, on a promissory note. Error to the Circuit Court of Coles County; the Hon. Lapsley C. Henly, Judge presiding. Heard in this court at the November term, 1902.\nAffirmed.\nOpinion filed April 30, 1903.\nR. G. Hammond and A. C. Anderson, attorneys for plaintiffs in error.\nA. J. Fryer, attorney for defendant in error."
  },
  "file_name": "0108-01",
  "first_page_order": 134,
  "last_page_order": 135
}