Kingdon v. Foster

Gunter, Justice.

This appeal presents the issue of whether the Georgia courts must give full faith and credit to an Alabama divorce judgment that is collaterally attacked, by a person not a party to the Alabama judgment, on the ground that the Alabama court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction at the time of the rendition of the Alabama divorce judgment.

The trial court ruled, in proceedings in which each of the contesting parties had sought a summary judgment in her favor, that the collateral attack could be made, that the summary judgment evidence sustained the collateral attack, that the…