Hays v. Jones

The defendant Mrs. Jones is alleged to be a certificated common carrier of passengers but jurisdiction is not contended for by reason of that fact because of the ruling in Youmans v. Hickman, 179 Ga. 684 (177 S. E. 238). Jurisdiction as to Mrs. Jones is contended for under the act of 1947 (Ga. L. 1947, p. 305), which provides that actions against nonresidents under the act of 1937, pages 732-34 shall be brought in the county in which the accident, injury or cause of action originated, or in the county of the residence of the plaintiff, if a resident of Georgia. The act of 1947 does not…