W. B. Thompson & Co. v. Daniel

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

Plaintiffs are appellants from a judgment sustaining the defendant’s exception of no cause of action and dismissing their suit.

It appears from the record that in 1892 George E. Murphy became indebted to J. F. Sample in the sum of seven thousand and nine hundred dollars, for which he gave a confession of judgment, bearing date June 22, of that year.

In 1894 Sample filed his confession of judgment in court and proved same, and obtained a final and definitive judgment thereon; and as soon as the term of court had adjourned he caused a writ of…