Gordy v. Levison & Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equitable petition. Before Judge Custer. Dougherty superior court. April 23, 1923. E. L. Gordy, doing business under the trade name of E. L. Gordy Lumber Company, C. D. Smith of Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, and John W. Shiver of Americus, Sumter County, Georgia, brought an equitable petition and alleged in substance the following: Defendants John D. Pope and S. S. Bennet are residents of Dougherty County, Georgia, practicing law under the firm name of Pope & Bennet.
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Equitable petition. Before Judge Custer. Dougherty superior court. April 23, 1923. E. L. Gordy, doing business under the trade name of E. L. Gordy Lumber Company, C. D. Smith of Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia, and John W. Shiver of Americus, Sumter County, Georgia, brought an equitable petition and alleged in substance the following: Defendants John D. Pope and S. S. Bennet are residents of Dougherty County, Georgia, practicing law under the firm name of Pope & Bennet. Defendant Samuel Birdsall Company is a nonresident corporation with its principal office and place of business in New York…
1Opinion of the CourtHill, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.)
1. We will consider first the question raised by the cross-bill of exceptions; for if the court had no jurisdiction of the parties, the subsequent proceedings were a nullity. Or, if there was jurisdiction as to some of the parties, the question raised in the main bill of exceptions will be considered only with reference to such parties as to whom the court had jurisdiction. It was insisted by the plaintiffs in the court below that jurisdiction had been acquired in the case over Birdsall & Co. and Levison & Co., residents of the State of New York, and their…
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