Dunlap v. Turner

Citations

• 64 Ill. 47

Syllabus

<p>Plea rtr abatement—sending process to foreign county. In an action of assumpsit Drought in the circuit court of Gallatin county, the defendant filed a plea in abatement of the writ, that he was a resident of the county of Morgan and had not been found or served with process in the county of Gallatin, and “ that the said debts, contracts or causes of action mentioned in the plaintiff’s declaration did not accrue in the county of Gallatin, nor were they made payable in said county”: Held, that a reasonable construction of the language of the plea was, that all the said debts, contracts or causes of action did not accrue nor were made payable in the county of Gallatin, and that, the declaration purporting to embrace several causes of action, the plea was defective in not averring that no one of the said debts, contracts or causes of action accrued or was made payable in the county of Gallatin.</p>