Commonwealth Loan Co. v. Firestine
Ohio Supreme Court
1Opinion of the CourtZimmerman, J.
Section 11221, General Code, recites :
“An action upon a specialty or an agreement, contract or promise in writing shall be brought within fifteen years after the cause thereof accrued.”
■Based upon such statute, Firestine’s main contention is that, under the wording of the cognovit note in issue, plaintiff’s cause of action against the defendants accrued within a short period subsequent to March 7, 1930, by reason of failure to make payments on the note according to its terms; that by virtue of the warrant of attorney in the note plaintiff could have obtained judgment by confession against the…
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