Egley v. T. B. Bennett & Co.

Appellee, a corporation having its prim cipal office and place of business in Illinois, recovered a judgment against appellant, a resident of Indiana, in the circuit court of Livingston county, Illinois, on a note which was executed in Indiana, but which was made payable in the city of Flanagan, Illinois.

The note contained the following provision: “I hereby irrevocably make any attorney at law my attorney for me and in my name to appear in any court of record, in term time or vacation, at any time hereafter to waive service of process and confess a judgment on this note in favor of the payee,…