Opinion ID: 199886
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Heading: Prominence of the Alteration

Text: 30 McGurn argues that Bell had actual knowledge of the alteration of the offer letter at the time of its return. Although McGurn advances no direct evidence that anyone at Bell noticed his revision of the termination clause, he points out that the alteration was made on the same page that bore his signature, which Bell acknowledges an unknown employee checked pursuant to company policy. McGurn infers from this that the unknown employee had to have seen the change in the duration of the termination clause, because one's eyes are immediately drawn to the change made by McGurn and his initials above that change. 31 While an inference that Bell had to have seen the change would be permissible based on the evidence in the record — the alteration was in the center of the very page McGurn had signed — we cannot say that a factfinder would be required to conclude that the Bell employee who checked for McGurn's signature must have noticed McGurn's alteration of the termination clause half-way up the page. That is, the evidence that a Bell employee must have seen McGurn's alteration is not so one-sided that [McGurn] must prevail as a matter of law. Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 252, 106 S.Ct. 2505, 91 L.Ed.2d 202 (1986).