Dewitt v. Flint & Walling Manufacturing Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice Dibell

delivered the opinion of the court.

On January 15, 1898, appellants gave O. P. Benjamin Manufacturing Company, an Indiana corporation, a judgment note which it afterwards assigned to appellee, another Indiana corporation. On December 30, 1898, appellants gave the same company another judgment note, which it also assigned to appellee. Appellee caused a judgment hy confession to be entered against appellants upon these notes. Appellants entered their motion nearly four years later to vacate and set aside said judgment. The court heard said motion upon an affidavit…