King Bros. v. Turner

King Brothers & Company sued out an attachment against Turner, upon the ground that the defendant “absconds.” At the trial term in the justice’s court Turner filed a plea to the jurisdiction, as it is termed in the paper itself, upon the grounds, (1) “that on the date of the levying of this attachment the defendant was, and still is, a resident of the State of Georgia, of the county of Fulton, ■ and was actually within the limits of Fulton county, Georgia; (2) that defendant has a residence in the city of Atlanta, Georgia, where he can be served with process; (3) that defendant is now…