RECOVERY ON NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS AFTER BLANKS IMPROPERLY FILLED

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Abstract

At the request of a debtor a person signs a note, the amount being left blank, but on the understanding that it should be filled in with the amount of a certain account; by the principal debtor the incomplete note is delivered to the agent of the payee with instructions to fill in the amount of the account as agreed with the surety; the payee's agent, however, fills in a much larger amount. What if anything, should the payee recover from the surety in a suit on the note? A late case in Indiana allows recovery in the amount which the surety agreed should be inserted.

Recommended Citation

RECOVERY ON NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS AFTER BLANKS IMPROPERLY FILLED, 29 Mich. L. Rev. 74 (1930).
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