Legal Opinion
Piggly-Wiggly Georgia Co. v. May Investing Corp.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided November 29, 1939No. 13078, 13087PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Grice, Justice.
The plaintiff by cross-bill of exceptions complains that the court overruled its motion to strike the special appearance by which the defendant attacked the validity of the service, on the ground that “said plea is defective in that it is a dilatory plea which is not sworn to personally by the defendant, as is required under the laws of this State.” We will not stop to discuss whether the plaintiff properly characterizes as a “dilatory plea” the defendant’s special appearance attacking the validity of the service. Whatever its proper name, the pleading was that of a…
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