Frisbee v. Seaman
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Dubuque Circuit Court. The petition states that on the 8th day of August, 1854,, the defendant executed, under oath, a confession of judgment in Jefferson county, New York, whereby he admitted himself justly indebted to James Freeland et al. in the sum of two thousand one hundred and fifty-one dollars and twenty-five cents, for goods, wares and merchandise sold and delivered that said confession was duly filed in the Supreme Court in and for the city and county…
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Appeal from Dubuque Circuit Court. The petition states that on the 8th day of August, 1854,, the defendant executed, under oath, a confession of judgment in Jefferson county, New York, whereby he admitted himself justly indebted to James Freeland et al. in the sum of two thousand one hundred and fifty-one dollars and twenty-five cents, for goods, wares and merchandise sold and delivered that said confession was duly filed in the Supreme Court in and for the city and county of New York, a court of competent jurisdiction, on the 18th day of September, 1854, and on said day last named said court…
1Opinion of the CourtSeevers, J.
1. foreign judgment: jurisdiction. I. Conceding the assignment of errors to be' sufficiently definite and specific, we proceed to a consideration of the alleged errors as presented by counsel for appellant in his argument. It is said, as the confession of judgment was made and sworn to in the county of Jefferson, that the Supreme Court of the city and county of *97New York had no power or jurisdiction to render a judgment thereon. But the petition states that such court was a court of competent jurisdiction, and this the demurrer admits. Besides this the confession is attached to and made a part…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Penley v. WaterhouseSupreme Court of Iowa · 1856
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