Legal Opinion

Odell v. Reynolds

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Decided October 28, 1895No. 264PublishedCited by 9 opinions

In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western Division of the Southern District of Ohio. This action was brought by the plaintiff in error, James A. Oclell, against Prank Reynolds and his guardian, upon a judgment rendered by the superior court of Cook county, Hi., on the 18th day of April, 1892, in favor of this plaintiff, and against the said Prank Reynolds, for the sum of $25,000, upon 12 promissory notes, aggregating in amount $25,000, and bearing…

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In Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western Division of the Southern District of Ohio. This action was brought by the plaintiff in error, James A. Oclell, against Prank Reynolds and his guardian, upon a judgment rendered by the superior court of Cook county, Hi., on the 18th day of April, 1892, in favor of this plaintiff, and against the said Prank Reynolds, for the sum of $25,000, upon 12 promissory notes, aggregating in amount $25,000, and bearing date the 11th day of April, 1892, each of which was acconrpanied by a warrant of attorney to confess judgment thereon.…

1Opinion of the Court

gEVERENS, District Judge,

having stated the case as above, delivered the opinion of the court.

The first question to which we shall give attention arises upon the objection of the defendant to the entry made by the sujierior court for Cook county on the 26th day of February, 1893, in correction and amendment of the judgment it had rendered on the 18th day of April, 1892. The grounds of that objection, as stated by counsél for defendant in error in argument, are: First, that the court had no power to make the order, for the reason that the term at which the judgment was rendered had expired;…

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