Moore v. Williams

This action was brought in the district court for Douglas county upon a judgment for $1,000 entered in the circuit court of Cook county, Illinois, in favor of plaintiff and against defendant. The petition contains all the necessary allegations to state a cause of action on a foreign judgment. The answer is a general denial, coupled with a claim by way of set-off for $113.50. Defendant’s real defense to plaintiff’s cause of action was that he had never been served with summons in Cook county, Illinois, and that the circuit court of that county was wholly without jurisdiction to render the…