Stahr v. Brewer
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 405, Jan. T., 1897, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. Northampton Co., No. 145, Feb. T., 1895, making absolute a rule to strike off judgment. Rule to strike off judgment. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was in making absolute a rule to strike off judgment.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mu. Justice Green,
The judgment note on which judgment was entered in this case was signed by the defendant alone, and the instrument was one which she could lawfully make, and upon which she could subject herself to liability. There was no irregularity or want of formality about it. The fact that she was a married woman does not appear on the record, and even if it did, the marriage is no longer, in itself alone, a disqualifying circumstance. We have decided that a judgment confessed by a married woman is now presumably valid: Abell v. Chaffee, 154 Pa. 254; Nuding v. Urich, 169 Pa.…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Nuding v. UrichSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1895
- Abell v. ChaffeeSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1893
- France v. RuddimanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1889
- Harrisburg National Bank v. BradshawSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1896
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- Ponevyezh Building & Loan Ass'n v. ShandelmanSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1933
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