Evans v. Garrett

(After stating the foregoing facts.) It is well-settled law, by numerous and repeated decisions of the Supreme Court and this court, that, where a single suit is brought against several joint tort-feasors in a county where one of them is a resident, and where the others reside in another county of the State, and, where on the trial of the case, the resident defendant is found not liable by the jury, and the non-resident defendants are found liable, the judge is without jurisdiction to enter judgment against the non-resident defendants. Lester v. Mathews, 56 Ga. 656; Rounsaville v. McGinnis,…