Benjamin v. Bartlett

Bartlett the defendant in error brought suit against Benjamin and Wife in the Circuit Court, to recover the amount of money due from the wife before her intermarriage with Benjamin, for work and labor done for, and materials furnished to her whilst sole. At the term to which the writ was returnable, the plaintiffs in error, (then the defendants in the Circuit Court,) appeared by their attorney in fact, under a power executed by them for that purpose, and confessed a judgment for two thousand two hundred and eighty-eight dollars, fifteen and one half cents, to hear an interest at the rate of…