Legal Opinion
Webb v. Oliver
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided November 21, 1974No. 49727PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Clark, Judge.
Was the defendant here a sojourner or a Georgia resident? Can such determination as to one being a sojourner, denizen, or resident, be answered as a matter of law by the court rather than submitted to a jury? These are the two principal questions presented for decision.
Plaintiffs, Mary and George Webb, sued Judy Sparks Oliver in December 1973 for damages arising out of an automobile collision. Jurisdiction was sought under the Nonresident Motorists Act through an allegation that defendant was a resident of Alabama on July 6,1973, the date of the occurrence on which the cause of…
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