Simmons v. J. A. Jones Construction Co. Inc.

At the January term, 1944, of the superior court of Glynn County, Judge Melville Price rendered a judgment in a garnishment proceeding for the plaintiff against the garnishee. He was presiding because of the illness of Judge Gordon Knox, the incumbent. Thereafter, in the same term, the defendant filed a motion in arrest of judgment which contained a prayer to arrest and vacate the judgment. In a written response the plaintiff attacked this motion on the. grounds that it was without process or service, that the court was without jurisdiction, that there was no defect apparent on the face of…