Vennum v. Mertens
Decision Date | 08 May 1906 |
Citation | 119 Mo. App. 461,95 S.W. 292 |
Parties | VENNUM v. MERTENS. |
Court | Missouri Court of Appeals |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Jefferson County; Joseph J. Williams, Judge.
Action by F. B. Vennum against Henry A. Mertens. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. Affirmed.
H. D. Irwin, for appellant. J. F. Green and Ernest F. Green, for respondent.
The suit is on a judgment rendered by the circuit court of Ford county in the state of Illinois at the April term, 1905, of said court. The suit on which the judgment was rendered was to recover the sum due on the following promissory note, which was duly indorsed by the payee and delivered to plaintiff on the day of its date, to wit:
The defendant was not served with process, and did not appear in person to the suit; but the record of the proceedings show that E. M. Rhodes, an attorney at law, appeared for defendant, and filed an answer, waiving the issuance of process, confessing the execution of the note and the amount due thereon, and confessing that judgment might be rendered therefor. Plaintiff offered in evidence the judgment roll, the entry of the judgment on the records of the Illinois circuit court, duly authenticated, and section 66, c. 110, Rev. St. 1899, of Illinois, which provides: "Any person, for any debt bona fide due, may confess judgment by himself...
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