Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1878 — Landlord and Tenant. [ARTICLE]

Landlord and Tenant.

A decision has just been rendered in the United States District Court, at Chicago, by Judge Blodgett, upon a question of great importance and interest to landlords and tenants. The case before the court was an application for an order giving plaintiff 1 possession of a house occupied by defendant under a lease, one of the clauses of which gave the owner of the premises power of attorney to confess judgment in a suit of this kind whenever the lessee failed to fulfill his part of the contract. The defendant had failed to pav the rent, and judgment was asked by the owner under this clause of the lease. No case of the kind had been presented hitherto. Judge Blodgett held that the power of attorney conveyed in the ?ease wbs as good as any other poorer of attorney to confess judgment, and the relief prayed for must be granted. The defendant gave notice that he would carry the matter to the Supreme Court. If the decision of Judge Blodgett is sustained, as it probably will be, landlords w ill not be slow to avail themselves of the means thus afforded for speedily getting rid of non-paying tenants. A clause in leases giving power to confess judgment will greatly simplify the hitherto rather complicated job of ousting delinquent lessees.