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176 Ga. 743

Peeples v. Mullins

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided March 18, 1933

Supreme Court of Georgia · decided 1933-03-18

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently June 1939

2 state decisions

Relies on Irons v. American National Bank

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Decided 1933-03-18

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Hill, J.

¶11. “The general rule is that the courts of this State have no extraterritorial jurisdiction, and can not hold citizens of other States amenable to its process, or bind them by a judgment in personam, without their consent.” Irons v. American National Bank, 175 Ga. 552 (165 S. E. 741), and cit.

¶22. The court did not err in setting' aside the order declaring service perfected by publication on the defendant Mullins, and in sustaining the general demurrer and dismissing the petition.

¶3Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.Gobi & Bright and George G. McCoy, for plaintiff.Abrahams, Bouhan, Atkinson & Lawrence, for defendants.
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