Mills v. Sleght

Opinion of the Court.

Kirkpatrick C. J.

From the return made to this writ, it appears, that on the 13th of January 1817, a judgment was entered by this justice, in an action wherein the said Robert Sleght was plaintiff and Moses Meeker and Denman Meeker defendants, for the sum of 42 dollars and 63 cents, debt, and 53 cents, costs, upon the confession of Moses Meeker, one of the defendants only, and in the absence of Denman Meeker, the other defendant; and that without any state of demand filed, or witness sworn; though from the very careless and imperfect manner in which that judgment is…