KINGDON v. FOSTER

31338.

238 Ga. 37 (1976)

230 S.E.2d 855

KINGDON v. FOSTER.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided November 23, 1976.

Rehearing Denied December 14, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Garland, Nuckolls, Kadish, Cook & Weisensee, O. Jackson Cook, Cliffe Lane Gort, Robert W. Hassett, for appellant.

Webb, Parker, Young & Ferguson, David E. Betts, Paul Webb, Jr., Bertram S. Boley, for appellee.


GUNTER, Justice.

This appeal presents the issue of whether the Georgia courts must give full faith and credit to an Alabama divorce judgment that is collaterally attacked, by a person not a party to the Alabama judgment, on the ground that the Alabama court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction at the time of the rendition of the Alabama divorce judgment.

The trial court ruled, in proceedings in which each of the contesting parties had sought a summary judgment...

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