Knox v. Winsted Savings Bank

This is an appeal from an order of the Superior Court of Chicago, overruling a motion to vacate a judgment rendered by confession, against appellants and one Carpenter, at the June term, 1870, of said court. The note and warrant of attorney upon which the judgment Avas rendered, were signed by the appellants and Carpenter, and also by “Tucker & Ritchie, ” to whose order the note was payable, and were joint and several.

At the July term, 1870, appellants Weber and Griswold, (two of the defendants below,) moved to set aside the judgment upon affidavits filed, alleging usury. At the same term,…