Johnson v. Johnson

Mobley, Justice.

1. The Constitution of Georgia of 1945, Art. VI, Sec. XIV, Par. I (Code Ann. § 2-4901) provides that “divorce cases shall be brought in the county where the defendant resides, if a resident of this State; if the defendant be not a resident of this State, then in the county in which the plaintiff resides . . .” In Harmon v. Harmon, 209 Ga. 474 (1) (74 SE2d 75), this court in construing and applying the above quoted provision of the Constitution held: “. . . [T]hese provisions of the Constitution are mandatory, exhaustive, jurisdictional, and without qualification; hence…