Morris v. George
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action on bond, from city court of Atlanta- — -Judge Reid. September 9, 1907.
1Opinion of the CourtPowell, J.
The administrator’s bond sued on in this case was executed by Messrs. Morris, as principals, and the National Surety Company of New York, as surety. The administrators reside in DeKalb county, the surety company in New York; but it has an office and an agency in Fulton county, though not in DeKalb county, where the decedent resided at the time of his death. The suit was located in Fulton county. The point is made that ’the courts of Fulton county were without jurisdiction, that venue was confined to DeKalb county. Taken together, the decisions in the cases of Reeves v. Southern Ry. Co., 121…
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