Merrill v. Lattimore

This is an appeal taken by the defendant from a-judgment by default, rendered and made final under the following circumstances:

This suit having been instituted upon two notes of hand and a small account, the defendant filed an exception to the plaintiff rs petition, and declined answering thereto, upon the ground that said petition is not signed by the plaintiff himself, nor by any other person for him.

*139The petition is signed by “ Fred. H. and Thos. P. Farrar” without qualifying themselves as the attorneys for plaintiff, and without any addition to their names; and the District Judge having…