Wells v. Stumph

Citations

• 88 Ill. 56

Syllabus

<p>Process — sufficiency of return of service by copy. A return to a chancery summons against A and B, husband and wife, that the officer had served it by reading to A, the husband, and delivering to him a true copy of the writ, and also “ by leaving with him at her usual abode a true copy of this writ, for B, his wife, she being over ten years old, and explaining the same to him,” is defective, as to the wife, and a default and decree as to her on such return are ' not warranted.</p>