John B. Colt Co. v. Wright

A judgment by confession was entered against the appellee, in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, on two promissory notes for sums aggregating $342. Each of the notes, in the event of default in its payment at maturity, authorized any attorney at law to appear for the appellee in any court of record in the State of Maryland, or elsewhere, to waive the issue and service of process, and to confess a judgment against him for any amount then due on the note, with costs of suit and ten per cent, collection charges. In pursuance of that provision, an attorney at law of Baltimore County appeared…