PHIPPS, Judge.
Betty Bishop sued Philip Francis in 2002, complaining that he had refused to repay a $20,000 loan she had made to him in 1990. As documentation of the loan, Bishop submitted a cancelled $20,000 check she had written to Francis in 1990. The check has the word "loan" handwritten following the preprinted word "for" in the lower left corner.
Francis answered, claiming that he had received the $20,000 from Bishop as a business investment and asserting...
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