Acker v. Cecil National Bank

The question in this case and the next is whether the power or warrant in a promissory note authorizing an attorney to confess judgment for the amount due can be exe-r cised, and the judgment confessed and entered, under that authority, when the debtor has previously become insane. The question assumes that the maker was competent at the time of the making' of the note; insanity at that time would go to invalidate the note and the power in it from the beginning. It is a question of the applicability of the rule that incompetency of a principal or donor of a power revokes authority or power…