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discussed Cited as authority (rule) CHAD RICHARD HENDERSON v. EDNA THOMAS FISHER
Ga. Ct. App. · 2022 · confidence medium
Mercier and Markle, JJ., concur. that the property be decreed to be that of the plaintiff, such action cannot be brought in the county where the land lies if the defendant be not a resident thereof.”). 21 Cf. Bradley v. Burns, 188 Ga. 434, 437 (1 ) ( 4 SE2d 147 ) (1939) (“[W]e find that the petition showed that the plaintiff had no title, and that only after relief in equity decreeing title in him would he have an action at law for recovery of the land; and since, as ruled above, he would be entitled to such equitable relief against [appellant] only when suit is brought therefor in the cou…
discussed Cited as authority (rule) Register v. Stone's Independent Oil Distributors, Inc.
Ga. · 1971 · confidence medium
Hanson v. Williams, 170 Ga. 779, 783 ( 154 SE 240 ); Bradley v. Burns, 188 Ga. 434, 435 ( 4 SE2d 147 ); Terhune v. Pettit, 195 Ga. 793 ( 25 SE2d 660 ); Fraser v. Moose, 226 Ga. 256, 258 ( 174 SE2d 412 ).
discussed Cited as authority (rule) Register v. Stone's Independent Oil Distributors (2×)
Ga. Ct. App. · 1970 · confidence medium
These provisions are "mandatory, and cannot be altered by legislative enactment or any rule of construction." Bradley v. Burns, 188 Ga. 434, 435 ( 4 SE2d 147 ).
cited Cited as authority (rule) First National Bank v. Rowley
Ga. · 1968 · confidence medium
By this provision every suit in equity must be brought in the county where a defendant against whom substantial relief is prayed resides.” Bradley v. Burns, 188 Ga. 434, 435 ( 4 SE2d 147 ).
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Davis
v.
Wells
No. 12862.
Supreme Court of Georgia.
Jul 11, 1939.
4 S.E.2d 243
Erwin, & Nix, for plaintiffs in error., J. B. G. Logan, R. G. Scott, Herbert Edmondson, and G. M. Lawson, contra.
Reid.
Published
Reid, Chief Justice.

Exceptions in this case are taken to the same judgment and error is assigned thereon by these plaintiffs in error, for the same reasons considered in the case of Commodity Credit Corporation v. Wells, 188 Ga. 287 (3 S. E. 2d, — ). The rulings there made control the case adversely to the contentions of the plaintiffs in error.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.