Williams v. State Highway Board

Duckworth, Justice.

Ground 2 of the county’s demurrer questions the court’s jurisdiction of the non-resident State Highway Board. This is the only ground of demurrer ruled on that raised the jurisdictional question; and it was error to sustain the same, since the resident defendant was not authorized to raise the question. The question of jurisdiction is personal, and can not be raised by a codefendant. Rice v. Tarver, 4 Ga. 571 (4); Roberts v. Burnett, 164 Ga. 64 (5) (137 S. E. 773). Whether or not the non-resident defendant could raise this jurisdictional question by general demurrer (see…