Hardy v. Adams

This was an action of debt, on an injunction bond, commenced in the Superior Court of Chicago. The summons was sent to LaSalle county, and there served. Judgment was rendered by default. There was no averment in the declaration that the contract was made in Cook county. We are now asked to reverse the judgment on the ground that the court in Cook county acquired no jurisdiction for want of averments in the declaration showing the case to be one in which it could send its process to a foreign county.

As our statute was construed prior to the case of Kenney v. Greer, 13 Ill. 449, this…