Equity Life Ass'n v. Gammon
Supreme Court of Georgia
Action on insurance policy. Before Judge Hodnett. City court of Carrollton. January 10, 1903. Mrs. Gammon sued the Equity Life Association, in Carroll county, on a policy issued in that county on the life of her husband, alleging that the defendant was a foreign corporation and had been doing business in this State as such, “but now has no public place for doing business in this State, and has no person in office in this State upon whom service of process can be perfected; ”…
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Action on insurance policy. Before Judge Hodnett. City court of Carrollton. January 10, 1903. Mrs. Gammon sued the Equity Life Association, in Carroll county, on a policy issued in that county on the life of her husband, alleging that the defendant was a foreign corporation and had been doing business in this State as such, “but now has no public place for doing business in this State, and has no person in office in this State upon whom service of process can be perfected; ” that it “ has not appointed and authorized any person resident in this State to acknowledge or receive service of…
1Opinion of the CourtLamar, J.
When the case was here before, it was decided that service upon Printup was not service upon the company; that if the company did not in the first instance designate an agent under the Civil Code, § 2057, it was a misdemeanor for its agents to transact business in Georgia; that the statute nowhere authorized the commissioner of insurance in the first instance to appoint an agent to receive service, although he had the power to name a successor to one already legally appointed, whenever the latter absented himself from the State. The amendment cures the defect; the allegation being that the…
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