George P. Steel Iron Co. v. Jacobs
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 6, March T., 1898, by defendants, from order of C. P. Huntingdon Co., Sept. T., 1896, No. 97, discharging rule to open judgment. Buie to open judgment.
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Appeal, No. 6, March T., 1898, by defendants, from order of C. P. Huntingdon Co., Sept. T., 1896, No. 97, discharging rule to open judgment. Buie to open judgment. Before Bailey, P. J. It appears from the record that by covenant of attorney judgment was confessed against defendants for the sum of $477.82, being for $365.30 principal debt and $111 attorney’s commissions, with interest from January 26,1896; that the note originally called for $2,240 upon which payments by instalments had been made, and judgment was entered for the balance due and the attorney’s commissions included a percentage…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Smith, J.,
This cause comes here on appeal by the defendants, from the refusal of the court below to open the judgment. From the record presented here we learn that on January 29,1894, the defendants gave a judgment note for $2,237.61, with interest, and five per cent attorney’s commission as collection fees, payable three months after date, in settlement of the account of R. W. Jacobs with the plaintiff. At the same time the parties agreed, by a separate writing, that the note might be paid by instalments of $300 every three months, and that judgment should not be entered on the…
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