Legal Opinion

Keenan v. Blue

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided November 24, 1908Published

Judgment by confession. Appeal from the Circuit Court of McLean county; the Hon. Colostin D. Myers, Judge, presiding.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Baume

On October 21, 1905, appellees, A. J. Keenan and L. C. Keenan, doing business under the name of J. Keenan’s Bank, recovered a judgment by confession in the Circuit Court of McLean county against appellants, William Blue and James Vance, and one D. L. Buckworth, for the sum of $4,573.40. The judgment was confessed by M. A. Brennan as attorney for the defendants under a warant of attorney contained in a promissory note for the sum of $4,000, bearing date March 8, 1905, payable two years after date to D. L. Buckworth or order. The warrant of attorney authorized Owen & Owen or any attorney at law…

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