Case ID: ga_76/html/0097-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Jackson, Chief Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Stone vs. Richardson.
    A traverse of a sheriff’s return made at the first term may be amended at a subsequent term by making the sheriff a party. 59 Gd., 461: 68 let., 215.
    Judgment affirmed. •
    December 22,1885.
   Jackson, Chief Justice.

[Suit was brought to the April term, 1884, of Whitfield superior court. The sheriff made a return of service by leaving a copy at the most notorious place of abode of the defendant. At the appearance term, the defendant filed > a traverse of the entry, but the sheriff was not made a party. At the next term, when the case was called, coun-. sel for the plaintiff moved to strike the traverse on that', ground. Before any decision was made, the court allowed i the sheriff to be made a party. At. the next term, the motion to strike was renewed and overruled,,and the tra- • verse being submitted to the judge without a,.jury, .he sustained it, and the plaintiff