Supreme Court of Missouri March 15, 1858 (Wagner v. Jacoby)

Richardson, Judge,

delivered the opinion of the court.

It was competent for the plaintiff to prove that the receipt offered in evidence by the defendant had been altered, or the jury could have found the fact if the suspicious circumstances on the face of the paper warranted that conclusion; but it was improper to permit the witnesses who had no previous knowledge of the receipt to give their