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29 Tex. 202

Gerald v. Burthee

Texas Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1867

Texas Supreme Court · decided 1867-01-15

Error from Polk. The case was tried before Hon. James M. Maxcy, one of the district judges. The defendant acknowledged service more than five days before the term, but the petition was not filed until the fifth day of the term. Then the defendant confessed judgment without an affidavit, as directed by the 116th section of the act to regulate proceedings in the district court. (Paschal’s Dig., Art. 1477, Note 573.) The question turned upon the effect of the judgment.

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Decided 1867-01-15

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Willie, J.

¶1This was a suit commenced below by defendants in error against plaintiffs in error upon a promissory note. Service was accepted by indorsement on the petition more than five days before the commencement of the court, and on the fifth day of the term the petition was filed, and the plaintiffs in error confessed judgment for the full amount claimed in it. The case is now brought to this court by writ of error, and it is assigned, among other things, that the court erred in permitting a judgment by confession to be entered up without process, and *204without an affidavit having heen made as to the justness of the debt.

¶2In the case of Flanagan v. Bruner, 10 Tex., 257, it was held, that if a defendant appear under process and confess judgment, the Judgment will be valid, whether there be an affidavit or not. That the statute, (O. & W. Dig., Art. 499,) when referring to appearance without process, meant without service of process; and that a waiver or acceptance is by law as effectual as actual service.

¶3There was an acceptance of service in this case which took it out óf the requirements of the statute as to swearing to the justness of the debt, and the court did not err in permitting the judgment to be rendered without such affidavit. The judgment is

¶4Aeeirmed.

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