Daugherty v. Summerall

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Where two defendants, one a resident of the county in which the suit is filed, and the other a non-resident of the county, are sued jointly as tort-feasors, the court has jurisdiction of both, including jurisdiction of the non-resident defendant, if both are in fact joint tort-feasors. If, however, there is no liability against the resident defendant, he is necessarily, not a joint tort-feasor with the nonresident defendant; and the court, as respects the person of the non-resident defendant, has no jurisdiction. Peake v. Stovall, 50 Ga. App. 595, 597 (179…