Thompson v. Hintgen
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL PROM CIRCUIT COURT, LA CROSSE COUNTY. This was a judgment entered by confession. The statement was as follows : “ I do hereby confess judgment in this cause in favor of Jno.
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APPEAL PROM CIRCUIT COURT, LA CROSSE COUNTY. This was a judgment entered by confession. The statement was as follows : “ I do hereby confess judgment in this cause in favor of Jno. S. Thompson for the sum of twenty-three hundred dollars, and authorize judgment to be entered therefor against me, and hereby stipulate and agree to and with the said plaintiff that said judgment shall draw interest at the rate of ten per cent per annum from the date of the entering up of the same, and that execution issue therefor when due. This confession of judgment is for a debt justly to become due to the…
1Opinion of the Court
*114 By the Court,
Paine, J.
The order appealed from in this case must be reversed. The only question involved is, as to the sufficiency of the statement, upon which the judgment by confession was entered. In the case of Nichols vs. Kribs, 10 Wis., 76, we had occasion to decide upon the character of ■such statements, and the one in question is clearly insufficient, within the rule there established.
The order of the court below, overruling the motion to set aside the judgment, is reversed, with costs.
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