Car Lease Incorporated v. Kitzer

Rogosheske, Justice.

Appellants, nonresidents of this state, each appeal from an order denying a motion to quash personal service of civil process upon them while they were involuntarily present in this state to respond to Federal criminal charges.

The facts are stipulated. Plaintiffs commenced an action for damages against multiple parties, including appellants, by personal service of process upon them on November 10, 1965. Both appellants were then and are now residents of Illinois. Knowing that warrants were to be issued for their arrests if they failed to appear in Federal court in…