Case ID: ga_113/html/0233-01.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

News Printing Company v. Brunswick Publishing Company.
    Argued February 8,
    Decided April 26, 1901.
    Traverse of service. Before Judge Nottingham. City court of Macon. March 12, 1900.
    
      Marion W. Harris, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Hardeman, Davis, Turner & Jones, contra.
   Simmons, C. J.

1. Where a summons of garnishment was issued against a corporation, and where the officer made two returns of service and these returns showed service upon a different corporation, and the officer was allowed to amend one of the returns so as to make it show service upon the corporation intended to be served, and the return, as amended, was traversed, the original returns were admissible in evidence, and it was error to exclude them from the jury.

2. Where one of the issues made by the traverse was that the summons itself was issued against the corporation named in the original returns of the officer and not against the corporation against which judgment was sought, it was error to allow the justice of the peace who issued the summons, and who wrote one of the returns for the officer, to testify that when he wrote the return he intended to name in it the corporation against which the judgment was sought.

3. Under the facts disclosed by the record, it was error to grant a nonsuit.

Judgment reversed.

All the Justices concurring, except Lewis, J., absent.