Rhoads v. National Bank

A judgment by confession was entered by the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, on March 1st, 1934, in favor of the National Bank of Cockeysville and against Albert E. Rhoads and Elmira E. Rhoads, his mother, on a promissory note, dated April 1st, 1931, and payable on demand, containing a power of attorney for the confession of a judgment on the note at any time after it matured. On November 4th, 1935, Elmira E. Rhoads, the appellant, filed a petition to strike out the judgment. The ground of the petition, as later amended and finally dismissed, and as now urged on appeal, is that the…