Court Opinion

ID: 9588549
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 23:35:34.629449+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:00:59.485986
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Beasley, Judge,
concurring specially.
I concur and compare this case with Siler v. Johns, 173 Ga. App. 692 (327 SE2d 810) (1985). Here, the first notice plaintiff had that service had been attempted and was unsuccessful was on February 6, and that was the service returned January 24. Even then plaintiff did not know that the marshal had earlier made a non est return in November, the month the suit had been filed, or that the non est return said “Cherokee County” upon it.
Plaintiff knew defendant’s correct street address all along. Because it was incumbent on plaintiff to ascertain the correct county of the defendant’s address in the first place, and because of the unexplained month-long delay between learning it was Cherokee County and having the case transferred there, I must agree that the trial court did not abuse its discretion.