Case ID: johns_11/html/0461-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Per Curiam.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Hill against Downer.
    fe^antpraye<i before a justice, and which was refused, funtari'iy* con^frit; ««“‘was the defend^ ^íitTeguií* nty.
    IN ERROR, on certiorari, from a justice’s court. In a suit by Downer against Hill, before the justice, Hill requested an adjournment, before issue joined; and offered to make ... . . , , , affidavit, and give security. The justice inquired about his defence; and a desultory conversation ensued between the parties and the justice, at the close of which, the justice told the defendant, Hill, that what he set up as a defence could not avail him, if proved 5 and therefore refused the adjournment; upon which Hill confessed judgment for six dollars fifty-one cents, and judgment was entered accordingly.
   Per Curiam.

There does not appear to have been any unfair advantage taken of the defendant below; and by voluntarily confessing judgment, he has waived all previous irregularity, if any.

Judgment must be affirmed.