Werner v. W. H. Shons Co.

Mr. Presiding Justice Barry

delivered the opinion of the court.

In an action on the case in which plaintiff in error, a partnership, was sued as a legal entity, a judgment was rendered against it by default for $15,000. The suit was brought against it in its firm name by virtue of section 13 of the Practice Act, Cahill’s St. ch. 110, H13, which provides: “Any non-resident person or any co-partnership, the members of which are all nonresidents, but having a place or places of business in any county of this State in which suit may be instituted, may be sued by the usual and ordinary name which…