American Bank & Trust Co. v. National Bank

On January 15, 1931, Allie M. White and W. W. White, Jr., through their attorney in fact, confessed a judgment in *171favor of the National Bank of Suffolk in the clerk’s office of the Circuit Court of Southampton county. On the same date the clerk entered the following order in the book kept by him among the records in his office, and labeled and designated as “Common Law Order Book—Confession of Judgment—No. 1”:

“Virginia: In the Clerk’s Office of the Circuit Court of Southampton County, the 15th day of January, 1931.

National Bank of Suffolk v. Allie M. White and W. W. White, Jr.

Confession of…