Ewing v. Elliott

G. B. Ewing, a resident of Montreal, Canada, filed suit in Glynn superior court against Robert W. Elliott, his father-in-law, also a resident of Montreal, Canada, in the sum of $50,000, for an alleged assault and battery committed upon him on the 30th day of December, 1932, in St. Petersburg, Pinellas county, Florida. Elliot filed a plea in abatement to the suit, challenging the jurisdiction of the court over his person; objecting to the process and the manner of its attempted service upon him. The plea alleged substantially as follows: “Defendant is not a citizen or resident of the State of…