Speir v. Floyd

Berry Floyd, as assignee, filed suit on June 11, 1929, in the city court of Savannah on a note against R. R. Geiger, a resident of Savannah, Chatham county, as maker, and IT. W. Speir and C. H. Shuman, as surety and indorser, the two last-named defendants being residents of Bryan county. The case was dismissed as to Geiger, the maker, because of his having, before suit, been adjudicated a bankrupt and duly discharged as such. When it became apparent that Geiger, the only resident of Chatham county, was not a party defendant, Speir and Shuman filed a plea to the jurisdiction, which, by…