ATLANTA &c. CASKET CO. v. MOSBY &c. SERVICE

40061.

107 Ga. App. 677 (1963)

131 S.E.2d 590

ATLANTA METALLIC CASKET COMPANY v. MOSBY TRUCK SERVICE, INC.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided April 24, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bullock, Yancey & Mitchell, Harris Bullock, for plaintiff in error.

Gambrell, Harlan, Russell, Moye & Richardson, E. Smythe Gambrell, Edward W. Killorin, contra.


EBERHARDT, Judge.

The question in this case is the jurisdiction of the Civil Court of Fulton County over nonresident motorists and the solution depends on statutory interpretation. Prior to 1955, the Nonresident Motorists Act1 provided that the courts "having jurisdiction of tort and criminal actions" would have jurisdiction under the act. In 1955, the General Assembly amended the act as set out in the footnote.2

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