International Press Ass'n v. Brooks

A judgment was entered by confession against plaintiff in error and in favor of defendant in error, by authority of a warrant of attorney contained in alease for rent which came due under the terms of the lease. Plaintiff in error moved the court at the same term to set aside the judgment and to dismiss the cause, or in lieu of dismissing the cause to allow defendant to plead. As grounds for' opening the judgment, plaintiff in error contended that it had been evicted from the premises described in the lease by the defendant in error before the rent for which the judgment was entered had…