Russo v. Santini

Chudoff, J.,

This case raises the question of whether a judgment may be confessed by an attorney on a copy of a note, the original, containing a power of attorney to confess judgment, having been lost, stolen or misplaced.

Although defendants’ petition to strike the judgment, to which plaintiff has filed an answer, alleges facts denying the execution of the instrument, it has been stipulated by and between counsel for plaintiff *648and defendants that the sole question before this court be limited to the authority of the prothonotary to enter judgment on the copy of the note which was filed in this…