Legal Opinion
Stuart Lumber Co. v. Perry
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided June 29, 1903PublishedCited by 9 opinions
Complaint. Before Judge Bower. City court of Bainbridge. October 6, 1902.
1Opinion of the CourtLamar, J.
Perry sued the Stuart Lumber .Company. The sheriff made the following return: “ I have this day served the defendant, H. M. Graham, general manager of the Stuart Lumber Company, with a copy of the within writ, by leaving it at his most notorious place of abode.” At the'appearance term the defendant filed a written motion to dismiss the petition for want of proper service, which motion, after argument, was overruled. From the language of the Civil Code, § 1899, and the decision in Burnett v. Central Ry. Co., 117 Ga. 521, it would seem that the motion should have been sustained; but the…
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