10 Wend. 672 | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | 1833
By the Court,
Ingalls contended in the court below that the judgment in favor of Rogers could afford no protection to Sprague, unless he showed that he had authority from Ingalls to confess it. The court, however, decided that in this action that judgment was conclusive against Ingalls, without any proof of the authority of Sprague to confess it, and was a justification to the defendant. The court decided correctly. Upon the face of the record, the judgment appeared to have been confessed by both defendants, and the record is prima facie evidence of that fact. It was unnecessary for the defendant to support the judgment, until it was impeached. The record contained enough to give jurisdiction to the court. Shumway v. Stillman, 4 Cowen, 292. Latham v. Edgerton, 9 id. 227. 15 Johns. R 141. 19 id. 33, 162. But admitting that Sprague had no authority to confess the judgment, or did not prove it before the justice, it would undoubtedly be ground of error, but would not go to the question of jurisdiction, so as to render the judgment absolutely void. In Marlin & Chamberlain v. Moss, 6 Johns. R. 126, this court re
The evidence in relation to the judgment and execution was properly admitted under the pleadings. The declaration of the plaintiff stated that the trespass of the defendant consisted in turning out the plaintiff’s property upon an execution. It was competent, I think, for the defendant to give the judgment and execution in evidence, without any special notice, after such an admission on the face of the pleadings.
Judgment affirmed.