Pyatt v. Riley

On January 29, 1906, one Edward C. Pyatt was the owner of a life estate in 160 acres of land in Moultrie county, which had been devised to him by his father and which was subject to an annual charge of $500 in favor of his mother, Ann E. Pyatt. Pyatt was a non-resident of the State of Illinois, and two attachment suits were commenced against him in the circuit court of Moultrie county,—one in favor of the Plano Manufacturing Company for the sum of $77.70, and one in favor of Spitler & Jennings for the sum of $100. Service was had by publication, and the attachment writs issued in said suits…