Bank of Hooversville v. Sagerson

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaefer,

Defendants executed two judgment notes in favor of the plaintiff banks amounting together to the sum of $10,000. They were dated December 21,1916, and judgments were entered thereon the next day. In March following, Sagerson presented a petition to open the judgments so far as he was concerned and to permit him to make a defense thereto. The prayer of the petition was granted and a jury trial awarded (the two cases being tried together) which resulted in verdicts in Sagerson’s favor; judgments were entered and from them plaintiffs prosecute these appeals.

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