Crowder v. Ginn

Jordan, Chief Justice.

We decide this day that Ga. L. 1977, pp. 586, 587 (Code Ann. § 24-117) does not deny due process by defining the term “nonresident” as used in our Long Arm Statute so as to include a person who was a Georgia resident at the time a claim arose against him out of a motor vehicle collision occurring in Georgia, but who subsequently became a resident of another state before personal service was perfected upon him in the other state in accordance with the Statute.

Ginn, the defendant, was a resident of Bibb County on the date of the motor vehicle collision. The collision…