Boeker v. Hess

This suit was brought upon a promissory note for $300, dated December 26,1886, executed at Streator, Illinois, payable to Henry Hess, and due in one year from date, at eight per cent interest. The note contained a power of attorney to confess judgment, and it purported to be signed by Fred Goerne, C. Boeker and Christian Baker. There was an affidavit filed, signed by Joseph Kopf and Henry Hess, to the genuineness of the signatures to the note, and a judgment confessed in the Circuit Court against all the defendants on the 11th of April, 1887, for $380..On the 29th of April, 1887, there was a…