Case Name: BALDWIN against BROWN
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1809-05
Citations: 3 N.J.L. 533
Docket Number: 
Parties: [401] [*] BALDWIN against BROWN.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 122–122

Head Matter:
[401] [*] BALDWIN against BROWN.
ON CERTIORARI.
Judgment may be entered without proof, on defendant’s agreement that it may, if he do not appear on a day certain, and he do not then appear.
The objection taken to the judgment below, was, that it was a judgment obtained in the absence of the defendant, and without evidence. The record sent up by the justice, stated that there had been a former meeting of the parties, and that the defendant had moved for, and obtained an adjournment on the express condition, that if he did not appear on the day of adjournment, judgment should be rendered against him for the demand of the plaintiff, that the defendant did not appear, and judgment was rendered accordingly.

Opinion:
By the Court.
A party may confess judgment, and in that case, there is no necessity of proof.
Judgment affirmed.