Court Opinion

ID: 6556021
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 18:58:15.275154+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:56:19.116552
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Boyce, J.
This is an application for judgment after the second Friday of the term for the amount admitted by the defendant to be due in Ms affidavit of defense. Notwithstanding the defendant’s admission, we tMnk the plaintiff cannot take judgment at any other time than that named in the statute and rule of court, that is, on the second Friday of the term, or on the last day thereof. Of course, the plaintiff can make Ms election to take judgment for the amount admitted to be due, at any time within the term. He now asks for something more than an election to take judgment for the amount admitted to be due in the affidavit of defense; he asks for judgment immediately, and after the second Friday of the term
Such a judgment, as is now asked for,' may by special motion be entered on the second Friday of the term to wMch the process is returnable, or it will, by motion entered on the motion docket, be entered on the last day of the term, unless an adjournment of the court is had before that time for more than ten days, in which event judgment may be entered on the day of such adjournment. We tMrik the application to enter the judgment immediately should be refused.
Rice, J.
Under Section 4, Chapter 106, Revised Code, p. 789, provision is made for two kinds of speedy judgments. One on the last day of the term in default of affidavit of defense being filed; the other by statute and by rule of court making even a more speedy judgment, that is, on the second Friday of the term. The affidavit of defense, we understand, in tMs case, was filed on the first Thursday of the term, witMn the rule, and it gave the plaintiff from that time until the second Friday to elect as. to one or more of. the speedy forms of judgment, the first of these the plaintiff has failed to take advantage of. The other form of judgment, to my mind, is left to the last day of the term.