Pearson v. Jones
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Trover; from city court of Savannah — Judge Davis Freeman. December 11, 1915.
1Opinion of the CourtBeoyles, J.
1. A motion in arrest of judgment must be based upon some defect not amendable which appears on the face of the record or pleadings. Civil Code, §§ 5957, 5960.(a) An irregularity in the direction of the process of a suit is amendable, and where the plaintiff’s petition, filed in the city court of Savannah, was served on the defendant by a deputy sheriff of that court, the judgment of the court in that case can not be arrested on the ground that the process attached to the petition was directed to the sheriff of Chatham county or his legal deputies, and that the sheriff of the county was not…
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