9 Wis. 184 | Wis. | 1859
By the Court,
The order of the circuit court vacating and setting aside the judgment in this cause must be reversed. It appears that the judgment was entered up, on a warrant of attorney, executed by Smith, on the 13th day of January, 1857. The warrant of attorney is in the usual form, authorizing John Barker, or any other attorney of a court of record, to appear for him, waive service of process and confess judgment in favor of the appellants, for the amount due upon a promissory note given by Smith, on that day, to’ Packard & Co., for the sum of $2,314 94, and made payable one day after date. On the next day, the 14th of
Several objections were taken, upon the argument of this cause, to the regularity and validity of this judgment; to the time at which it was entered; and that it was not properly signed by an officer authorized to sign the record of judgment by the laws of this state; and was not docketed in the judgment docket book until nine months after it was entered up in the clerk’s office, &c. Whether any or all of these objections to the judgment are of a character which would authorize the court in setting it aside, on the application of
In this case Hiram Price acquired his interest in the property with his eyes open, and the record of the court before him showing that the judgment became a lien on the land previous to the time he purehased it, if it ever did ; and he ought not to be permitted to disturb it in this manner.
The order of the circuit court vacating and setting aside the judgment in this cause is therefore reversed.