Wilson Sewing Machine Co. v. Wilson

This is a plea in abatement upon the general ground that the complaint was not legally served.

*596The plaintiff is a citizen of Connecticut and the defendant is a citizen.of the state of Illinois. On March 19th, 1884, four actions at law were assigned for trial in this court, one being in favor of F. H. Alford against the present defendant, and three being upon endorsed promissory notes in favor of the endorsee, the First National Bank of Chicago, against the makers, said Alford and Charles Dickinson. The defendant was an endorser_ upon each of the notes.

In the case in which Alford was plaintiff,…