Kauffman v. Fisher

Opinion by

Woodward, J.

Reber’s confession of judgment bound only himself — but himself none the less for being made in an amicable *303action in which the'names of the Kauffmans, his former partners, ■were mentioned. It is argued, however, that a judgment so confessed by one partner for a partnership debt had the effect to discharge the other partners from future liability for the same debt.- Not so. The rule of the common law was altered by the 2d section of our act of assembly of 6th April, 1830, Purdon, 446, title, Judgments, pi. 33, which reads: “In all cases of amicable confession of judgment…