Roche v. Beldam

Citations

• 119 Ill. 320

Syllabus

<p>1. Court record—importing verity—parol evidence to contradict it— conclusiveness on the parties. The record of a court, showing the entry of a judgment by confession in open court, imports verity, and can not be contradicted by parol evidence.</p> <p>2. Where the record of a judgment is once made up, it is conclusive upon all the parties thereto, until altered or set aside by a court of competent jurisdiction.</p> <p>3. Same—errors in its recitals, how corrected. If the record of a judgment by confession does not state the facts as they actually occurred, the defendant should apply to the court in which the proceedings were had,-and have it corrected, so as to show the facts correctly. If this is not done, no parol evidence can be heard to contradict it.</p>