Hood v. Gehrs
Appellate Court of Illinois
Judgment by confession. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Jesse A. Baldwin, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1910.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Fitch
Eight days after the entry of a judgment by confession in the court below for $226.22 upon a judgment note signed by appellant, she appeared and made a motion to vacate the judgment and for leave to plead to the merits. In support of her motion she filed several affidavits stating in substance that the note was given by her to the appellee, a practicing attorney at law, in consideration of services to be by him performed as her attorney in conducting a divorce suit; that appellee filed the bill for divorce, procured a temporary injunction and served several notices, apparently upon tenants of…
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