Southern Ry. Company v. Coleman

The sole question presented by this record is whether wages of persons who reside out of the State, which wages have been earned wholly without the State, are subject to garnishment in a case which is not brought by writ of attachment.

Phil H. Coleman, the defendant in the divorce and alimony case, voluntarily submitted himself to the jurisdiction of Fulton Superior Court by acknowledging service, waiving process, and by consenting to the rendition of a judgment by the court against him and obligating him to pay a stated amount of alimony for his wife and for the support of his minor children.…