Humphries v. McWhorter & Brightwell

25 Ga. 37

• Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
• Decided: March 15, 1858
• Status: Published

Opinion

By the Court.

McDonald, J.

delivering the opinion.

Although it appears that error is assigned on the decision -of the Court on the affidavit of illegality, it is not insisted on in this Court. The argument, here, was confined to the judgment of the Court below on the motion to set aside the judgment.

We think that the acknowledgement of service by the defendants, alleged in the declaration to reside in Fulton was sufficient to give the Court of Cass county jurisdiction as to them. The entire object of requiring a second original and process to issue when an endorser is sued, and resides in a eounty different from that of the maker of a promissory note, where the suit must be brought, is to assure the Court that the party has been served, by the proper officer, and that the party himself has legal notice of the suit. This object is fully accomplished by the acknowledgement of service by the parties in this case. The defendant was at liberty to waive a constitutional as well as a legal right in a matter of this sort. He did waive it, and must be bound by it.

Judgment affirmed.