Flanagan v. Bruner

Hemphill, Ch. J.

These eases are all judgments hy confession, and one common error pervades them all, viz : that there was no affidavit hy plaintiff of the justness of the debt. The statute (art. 770) authorizes a person, for any bona fide debt, to appear without process, in person or hy attorney, and confess judgment; hut in such cases a petition shall always he filed and the justness of the debt sworn to hy the person in whose favor the judgment is confessed.

Petitions were filed in the several eases, hut in the two former there was no process, and in the latter, though a citation was made…