NATIONAL COAL & COKE CO. v. McELVAIN

No. 4937.

21 F.Supp. 838 (1938)

NATIONAL COAL & COKE CO. v. McELVAIN et al.

District Court, N. D. Texas, Dallas Division.

January 10, 1938.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillips, Trammel, Chizum, Estes & Edwards, of Fort Worth, Tex., for plaintiff.

E. S. McCord, of Longview, Tex., for defendants.


ATWELL, District Judge.

The plaintiff sues on an Illinois judgment. Under the statutes of that state, one may confess a cause of action if and when instituted, on the obligation. Smith-Hurd Ill.Stats. c. 110, § 174. In the notes which were the basis of the Illinois judgment, the makers stipulated that any attorney at law, of record, of a court of record, in the state of Illinois, was authorized to confess judgment for them in the event of default.

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