Bolton v. McKinley

The plaintiff in error obtained a judgment by confession, under a power of attorney, against the defendant in error, at the November term, 1857, of the Cook Circuit Court, for $1,818 and costs. The judgment was confessed upon a note purporting to have been executed by defendant in error to plaintiff in error, for $1,793, and the power of attorney also purported to have been given by him authorizing the confession of judgment at any time after the execution of the note. At the same term of the court defendant entered a motion to stay execution and proceeding under the judgment, and to set the…