Norris Candy Co. v. Dixie Highway Express, Inc.

Frankum, Judge.

Code § 68-618, providing for substituted service of process on a nonresident motor common carrier not *666having a designated agent to accept service of process, by serving process on the Comptroller General, being in derogation of the common law, will not be extended beyond the mode fixed by the legislature and shall be strictly and literally construed. Williams v. Batten, 156 Ga. 620 (119 S. E. 709); Aldrich v. Johns, 93 Ga. App. 787 (92 S. E. 2d 804); Mull v. Taylor, 68 Ga. App. 663 (23 S. E. 2d 595). The statute does not provide for substituted service by serving a person…