WELLS FOR USE OF RAINWATER v. BRAXTON

Gen. No. 51,060.

82 Ill. App.2d 354 (1967)

227 N.E.2d 137

Norval W. Wells and Samuel E. Wells for the Use of Catherine L. Rainwater, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Willie A. Rainwater, Deceased, Rowena Annabelle Secrist, Edna B. Harris, as Administrator of the Estate of Claude William Harris, Deceased, Claude W. Harris, and Charles Harris, a Minor, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Lee Braxton, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois — First District, Third Division.

Rehearing denied June 5, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jean Appleman, of Chicago, for appellants.

Carroll, Connelly & Hartigan, of Chicago (John M. Hartigan and John M. Hillery, of counsel), for appellees.


MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE SULLIVAN delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from orders quashing the service of process upon defendants Braxton, Ewen, Jones and Keith, and transferring the case as to the rest of the defendants from Macon to Cook County. The orders recited that three of these defendants, Ewen, Jones and Keith, were not amenable to process by Illinois under section 17 of the Illinois Civil Practice Act, (Ill Rev Stats 1963, c 110, par 17),...

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