Garden City Insurance v. Stayart

On the 3d day of October, 1872, the defendant in error. Pankratz Stavart, filed in the clerk’s office of the Superior Court of Cook county a preecipe for a summons against the plaintiff in error, the Garden City Insurance Company, in a plea of trespass on the case upon promises, on which day, in obedience to this praecipe, a summons was issued, returnable on the first day of the next term of that court, to be held on the first Monday of the month of November then next.

This summons was duly served, and, on the 7th day of November, 1872, the plaintiff appeared, by his attorney, and the…