Case Name: Byrd & Company v. Interstate Chemical Company
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1917-02-16
Citations: 19 Ga. App. 412
Docket Number: 7743
Parties: Byrd & Company v. Interstate Chemical Company.
Judges: Broyles, P. J., and Jenhms, J., concur.
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 19
Pages: 412–413

Head Matter:
7743.
Byrd & Company v. Interstate Chemical Company.
Decided February 16, 1917.

Opinion:
Bloodworth, J.
The defendant in execution having failed to make the sheriff of the county a party to the traverse, of the entry of service (Civil Code, § 5566),-and having failed to give the sheriff any notice whatever thereof, the entry of service appearing to haye been made by a deputy sheriff, who was made a party, the illegality proceeding could have had no other legal termination than in favor of the defendant in error. Georgia Railway & Power Co. v. Davis, 14 Ga. App. 790 (82 S. E. 387); Rawlings v. Brown, 15 Ga. App. 162 (3), 164 (82 S. E. 803); Citizens Bank of Bainbridge v. Fort, 15 Ga. App. 427 (83 S. E. 678) ; Southern States Phosphate & Fertilizer Co. v. Clark, ante, 376. While this fatal defect should properly have been reached by a timely motion to strike the traverse, yet under the facts of the case the court did not err in directing, upon motion, a verdict for the plaintiff in execution and against the affidavit of illegality. .
Judgment affirmed.
Broyles, P. J., and Jenhms, J., concur.
Affidavit of illegality; from city court of Nashville—Judge Christian. June 21, 1915. , .
J. D. Lovett, for plaintiff in error.' W. B. Smith, contra.