Allport v. Meutsch
Appellate Court of Illinois
Judgment by confession. Writ of error to the Circuit Court of Cook county; the Hon. Charles M. Walker, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1909.
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Presiding Justice Brown
delivered the opinion of the court.
May 5, 1909, judgment by confession was entered in the Circuit Court of Cook county in favor of Hannah Allport against Charles Meutseh and Martha Meutseh for $535 and costs. The narr or declaration, which was in the usual form for a suit on a promissory note (except as hereinafter stated), was accompanied by a cognovit signed by an attorney. It admitted that the plaintiff had “sustained damages * # including'the sum of twenty-five dollars for her reasonable attorney’s fees for entering up this judgment over and above her other…
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