53 Kan. 242 | Kan. | 1894
The opinion of the court was delivered by
This action was brought by the bank against the plaintiff in error on a judgment of the court of common pleas of Green county, Ohio. The defendant in the court below says that he was a resident of Kansas during all the time proceedings were pending in the Ohio court, and that that court had no jurisdiction to render a judgment against
“$1,818.43. BELLEFONTAINE, O., January 15,1883.
“Two hundred and sixty days after date, we, or either of us, promise to pay the Bellefontaine National Bank, or order, eighteen hundred eighteen ^¡y dollars, for value received, with interest at 8 per centum per annum after maturity. And we authorize and empower any attorney at law, at any time after the above note becomes due, to appear for us, or any of us, in any court of record, and waive the issuing and service of process, and confess judgment against us jointly or severally, or against any of us, for the amount of said note, interest, and costs, in favor of the legal holder of said note, and to release all errors and waive all right of appeal, and all right to file any petition in error.
“Witness our hands and seals, this 15th day of January, A. D. 1883. J. C. Kitchen. [seal.]
R. S. Kerr. [seal.]”
The original note was admitted in evidence on the trial, over the objection of the defendant. He admitted on the witness stand that his signature was genuine. No error was committed in its admission, as it furnished proof of the authority of the attorney who entered an appearance for the defendants.
The validity of judgments in sister states entered on general warrants of attorney, similar to the one in this case, has already been passed on by this court. This judgment was entered in term time, on the appearance of the defendant by Joseph N. Dean, who is shown by the journal entry of judgment in the Ohio court to be one of the attorneys of record of that court, under the warrant of attorney. We think the case of Ritter v. Hoffman, 35 Kas. 215, is decisive of the only substantial question in the case. The second clause of the syllabus in that case is as follows: “ Under the evidence in the case, an instrument in writing confessing judgment, exe
Complaint is also made of the admission in evidence of the certificate of the comptroller of the currency of the incorporation of the plaintiff’s bank under the national banking law. There was no error in this. The certificate was competent evidence, and the defendant was estopped from denying the plaintiff’s corporate existence. (Massey v. Building Association, 22 Kas. 624.)
Other errors are assigned, but we deem them unworthy of special mention. No claim is made that the defendant does not justly owe the debt.
The judgment is affirmed.