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CHICAGO LIFE INS. CO. v. CHERRY

No. 171.

244 U.S. 25 (1917)

CHICAGO LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY ET AL. v. CHERRY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 7, 1917.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Charles A. Atkinson, with whom Mr. Chilton P. Wilson and Mr. Charles J. O'Connor were on the briefs, for plaintiffs in error:

Mr. Vernon R. Loucks, with whom Mr. Fred H. Atwood and Mr. Charles O. Loucks were on the brief, for defendant in error.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a suit in Illinois upon a judgment recovered in Tennessee against the insurance companies, plaintiffs in error. They pleaded and set up at the trial that there never was a valid service upon them in Tennessee and that the judgment was void. The defendant in error (the plaintiff) showed in reply, without dispute, that the...

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