Case Name: WILKINS against CROFT
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1806-09
Citations: 2 N.J.L. 92
Docket Number: 
Parties: WILKINS against CROFT.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 85–86

Head Matter:
WILKINS against CROFT.
ON OEBTIOBABI.
Reversal of judgment on judgment note, without confession or proof.
The record sent up by the justice is as follows:

Opinion:
Kirkpatrick. C. J.
— This proceeding is irregular. It pretends to be a judgment on a note of hand with leave to enter judgment. But this cannot be done upon mere inspection. Either the party or his attorney must appear and confess the judgment, or proof of the signing the warrant, must be exhibited. And it is much to be questioned whether even this is admissible in a justice's court, without summons to the party, and an opportunity offered him at least, of cross-examining the [*] witness. It is to be observed that this [67] is not a proceeding under the act contained in Paterson, page AU- That respects sealed instruments with regular warrants of attorney, this is a note without any such warrant.
Pearson, for plaintiff.
I think the judgment is wrong in its principle, and therefore must be reversed.
Rossell and Pennington, Justices, concurred.
Judgment reversed.