Young v. Morrison

Duckworth, Chief Justice.

This case squarely presents the question of whether or not a Georgia court can render a judgment in personam against residents of Florida when they had in no fashion submitted to the jurisdiction and had not been served personally. In requiring that residents of the State be sued in the county of their residence, the Constitution, Art. VI, Sec. XIV, Par. VI (Code Ann. § 2-4906; Const, of 1945), manifests an unmistakable intent to require that suits be brought where the defendant lives. That intent is irreconcilable with the ideas implicit in Code Ann. § 68-808 (Ga. L.…