Morris v. Trustees of Schools

This was a proceeding by attachment, sued out in the name of the “ Trustees of Schools of township four north, of range six west, in Hancock county, Illinois,”.against B. F. Morris. It was commenced in the Hancock Circuit Court, on the 30th of April, 1851. The affidavit stated that the defendant was justly indebted to the plaintiffs, “in the sum of about seven hundred and twenty-one dollars and twenty-seven cents: that said indebtedness is by a promissory note, signed and sealed by the said Benjamin F. Morris, bearing date the fifth day of June, 1840, and payable two years after date, for the…