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        "text": "Mr. Justice Sears\ndelivered the opinion of the Court.\nThis suit is upon contract, was begun by attachment, and resulted in judgment by default against plaintiff in error. Ho service of process was had save by publication, based upon the affidavit for attachment.\nThe case turns upon the sufficiency of the affidavit, which is the basis of the attachment proceeding, and of the court\u2019s jurisdiction. - .....\nThe affidavit recites that affiant \u201c is one of the plaintiffs herein, and makes this affidavit on their behalf, that (naming the plaintiffs) have a just demand against Syndicate des Cultivators des Oignons a Fleur, a foreign corporation, on account of damages for breach of express contract, and the affiant believes that the plaintiffs (naming them) are entitled to recover of Syndicate des Cultivators des Oignons a Fleur, after allowing all' just credits and set-offs, seven hundred and seventy dollars and forty-eight cents, which is now due, and that he has good reason to believe, and does believe that the said Syndicate des Cultivators des Oignons a Fleur is a foreign corporation, and is not a resident of the State of Illinois, and that the place of residence and location of the principal office . of the said Syndicate des Cultivators des Oignons a Fleur is at Ollioules (Var.), France.\u201d\nThe affidavit for an attachment must allege the several matters necessary to authorize the writ, in positive and unequivocal terms. Prins v. Hinchliff, 17 Ill. App. 153.\nHor may .these, allegations be made upon information and belief alone.\n\u201c Information and belief can not supply the place of a positive allegation that the defendant is indebted, or, that he is non-resident.\u201d Dyer v. Flint, 21 Ill. 80.\nThe rule can, in principle, be extended as well to cover an allegation upon belief alone. A statement upon belief only, unaccompanied by showing as to whether such belief is founded upon knowledge or information, can not be accepted as a substitute for positive averment.\nThe statute has been construed to require a positive allegation of non-residence, as a fact within the knowledge of the affiant, and a like allegation of indebtedness as a fact within his knowledge. Archer v. Claflin, 31 Ill. 306.\nThe case In re Keller, 36 Fed. Rep. 681; cited, which interprets a statute requiring positive verification, seems, so far as the facts of the ease are disclosed, to support the contention of counsel for defendant in error. But we decline to accept that decision as authority contra the reasonable and well settled rule of our own State.\nThe judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.",
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      "Louis J. Piersen, attorney for plaintiff in error,",
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    "head_matter": "Syndicate des Cultivators des Oignons a Fleur v. James Currie, Sr., et al.\n1. Attachment\u2014What the Affidavit Must Allege.\u2014The affidavit for an attachment must allege the several matters necessary to authorize the writ in positive and unequivocal terms.\" Such allegations can not be made upon information and belief.\nAttachment.\u2014Error to the Superior Court of Cook County; the Hon. Arthur H. Chetlain, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1897. Reversed and remanded. Opinion filed November 2, 1897.\nLouis J. Piersen, attorney for plaintiff in error,\ncontended that the affidavit for attachment must be positive. Information and belief can not supply the place of positive allegations. Hothing short of positive allegations of the indebtedness and non-residence fulfills the requirements of the statute. Dyer v. Flint, 21 Ill. 80; Archer v. Claflin, 31 Ill. 306; Prins v. Hinchliff, 17 Brad. 153; Reitz v. The People, 77 Ill. 518; Thormeyer v. Sisson, 83 Ill. 188.\nMorse, Ives & Tone, attorneys for defendants in error."
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