Dickinson v. Horn

3 Del. 496

Opinion

But the court said that the cases were distinguishable. In the case cited, the parties went before the justice without process, and he m corded a judgment, by confession, without any previous process There was no case before the justice up on which he could give judg ment. It stood solely on the parties’ confession. But in the presen case the parties were regularly before him, and a cause stood foi hearing, upon which the justice was authorized to give judgment upon proof satisfactory to him, whether upon the defendant’s admis sion of the plaintiff’s claim, or on any other evidence.

Judgment affirmed.