Ford v. Southern Railway Co.

1. The courts of Georgia have no extraterritorial jurisdiction, and can not make a citizen of another State amenable to their process, or conclude him by a judgment in personam, without his consent; and where such a judgment was rendered in this State against a citizen of the State of Tennessee, upon whom no personal service of process was made within this State, and who did not appear, but who was served by a publication of summons, the judgment was void. Pennoyer v. Neff, 95 U. S. 714 (2) (24 L. ed. 565); Dearing v. Bank of Charleston, 5 Ga. 497 (5); Bank of Floral City v. Warnock, 144 Ga.…