WELLS FOR USE OF RAINWATER v. Braxton

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE SULLIVAN

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from orders quashing the service of process upon defendants Braxton, Ewen, Jones and Keith, and transferring the case as to the rest of the defendants from Macon to Cook County. The orders recited that three of these defendants, Ewen, Jones and Keith, were not amenable to process by Illinois under section 17 of the Illinois Civil Practice Act, (Ill Rev Stats 1963, c 110, par 17), and that return of service upon Braxton failed to meet the requirements of section 16 of that act.

Braxton, a North Carolina resident,…