Chapin v. Thompson
California Supreme Court
The paper, of which a copy is set forth in the opinion, was filed in the District Court of the Sixth District, on the twenty-seventh day of July, 1850. "Whereupon the Court, then being in session, entered up the following order in the minutes, which were signed by the Judge at the close of that day’s proceedings, viz. “ Chapin v. Robert Thompson et al.
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The paper, of which a copy is set forth in the opinion, was filed in the District Court of the Sixth District, on the twenty-seventh day of July, 1850. "Whereupon the Court, then being in session, entered up the following order in the minutes, which were signed by the Judge at the close of that day’s proceedings, viz. “ Chapin v. Robert Thompson et al. On this day came into Court the defendants, by their attorney, and presented their written confession of judgment in favor of said plaintiffs in the sum of fourteen hundred dollars, with interest at the rate of five per cent, per month from May…
1Opinion of the CourtCope, J.
The questions in this case grew out of certain proceedings based upon a paper purporting to be an acknowledgment of indebtedness, authorizing the entry of a judgment by confession. The paper is dated July 27th, 1850, and reads as follows: “ We, Robert Thomp*686son, John Taylor, David Hewes and David Huntoon, defendants, hereby confess and acknowledge that there is now justly due to Horatio Chapin the sum of $1,400, with five per cent, per month interest from May 21st, 1850, for which sum of money we hereby authorize the entry of a judgment against us. The consideration for said indebtedness is a…
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