Court Opinion

ID: 9584589
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:50:26.224451+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:09:10.649606
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*317Duckworth, Chief Justice,
dissenting. Where the Constitution (Code Ann. § 2-4906; Constitution of 1945, Art. VI, Sec. XIV, Par. VI) provides that all suits are to be tried “in the county where the defendant resides,” the location of the residence of the defendant is an ultimate fact to be determined by proper evidence, and the legislature is unauthorized to attempt to bypass this constitutional requirement by enacting into law Code Ann. § 56-1201 (4) (Ga. L. 1960, p. 500) which, in effect, reverses the provision and intent of the Constitution by declaring the residence of the plaintiff or location of plaintiff’s property to be the residence of the defendant. It is, therefore, unconstitutional and void, and for this reason alone I dissent.