Legal Opinion
Warnock v. Elliott
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided November 12, 1957No. 36925PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGardner, P. J.
1. Counsel for the defendants contend that where a principal and his agent are sued as joint tortfeasors in the county of the residence of the agent and it develops that the agent is not a joint tortfeasor, and that the principal is not a resident in the county in which suit is brought, the suit can not be maintained in that jurisdiction. This is a true principle of law. See Crosby v. Calaway, 65 Ga. App. 266 (16 S. E. 2d 155), and Shelton v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co., 88 Ga. App. 834 (78 S. E. 2d 99).
We now move to decide the matter of whether or not the defendant H. E. Dunaway was the…
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- Larkins v. BoydSupreme Court of Georgia · 1949
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