Holm v. Comm

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE ALLOY

delivered the opinion of the court:

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of Rock Island County which denied defendant Pauline Bagatelas’ motion to vacate a judgment entered by confession. On appeal in this court, defendant contends (1) that the judgment confessed is void because the attorney who confessed the judgment departed from the authority conferred by the warrant to confess judgment; (2) that the confessed judgment is void because the extent of the authority to confess judgment cannot be ascertained from the fact of the instrument granting the…