Bawknight v. Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance
Supreme Court of Georgia
Foreign corporations. Actions. Before Judge Tompkins. Chatham Superior Court. February Term, 1875. Eeported in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Judge.
The defendant is a corporation chartered by Great Britain, and having an agency in Savannah, Chatham county, Georgia. A judgment was obtained against it by the plaintiff, in Florida, and suit on this judgment was brought in the superior court of Chatham county. A motion was made by the defendant to dismiss it on two grounds: 1st. Because the superior court of Chatham county had, no jurisdiction of the cause, (the motion on this ground having been made at a prior term, before Judge Schley, and refused by him, and excepted to pendente lite, and is here for review;) 2d. Because…
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