Cocke v. Wilson

This is an action at law in which the appellee was the plaintiff and the appellant was the defendant. With the consent of his attorney, a judgment was entered against the appellant for something less than the amount sued for. On the day after the entry of this judgment the appellant filed a motion, praying that the judgment he set aside and the case tried on its merits, setting forth that the judgment was entered without his knowledge or authority to his attorney to agree thereto, and “that he has a meritorious defense to the claims and demands of the plaintiff.” The evidence introduced in…