Shupp v. Hoffman

The appellant in this case, Catharine A. Shupp, executed a promissory note on the 25th day of June, 1811, to the appellees, for the sum of $350; and on the 21th day of June of the same year a judgment by confession for the amount of the debt and interest was entered, according to the written assent and agreement of the plaintiffs and defendant. There was no effort made to enforce the payment of this judgment until the 24th day of September, 1888, more than eleven years after *360its rendition, when a scire facias was issued by order of the plaintiffs. To the scire facias the defendant pleaded her…