Case ID: ga_111/html/0859-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Simmons, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Shearouse, administrator, v. Wolfe.
    Argued July 18, —
    Decided August 7, 1900.
    Ejectment. Before Judge Seabrook. Effingham superior court. October 23, 1899.
    
      D. H. Clark, for plaintiff in error. A. C. Wright, contra.
   Simmons, C. J.

Where in a suit in a justice’s court the summons names only a certain man as defendant, and both he and his wife are served, and the magistrate enters up judgment against both, the judgment against the wife is void, the record not showing that she appeared or pleaded.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concurring.