Acme Feeds Inc. v. Berg

Appellant is an Illinois corporation with its principal place of business in Cook county but it took judgment in DuPage county, though a statute of that state provides:

“* * * every civil action shall be commenced in the county where one or more defendants reside or in which the transaction or some part thereof occurred out of which the cause of action arose * ,* # . If all defendants are non-residents of the State, an action may be commenced in any county.” Illinois Rev. Stat. 1941, chapter 110, section 131.

The last sentence above quoted cannot be held to warrant a personal judgment against…