O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 14-5-9 (2019)

Jurisdiction and service of summons in garnishment proceedings

✓ O.C.G.A.: 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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The court in which is pending an action, attachment, or judgment upon which is sought garnishment against a corporation shall also have jurisdiction of the garnishment proceeding where the corporation has an agent and place of business in the county in which the court is situated. Service of the summons of garnishment upon the agent in charge of the office or business of the corporation in that county shall be sufficient service.

History

(Ga. L. 1884-85, p. 99, § 2; Civil Code 1895, § 1900; Civil Code 1910, § 2259; Code 1933, § 22-1102; Code 1933, § 22-5302, enacted by Ga. L. 1968, p. 565, § 1.)

Annotations

Law reviews. - For note discussing problems with venue in Georgia, and proposing statutory revisions to improve the resolution of venue questions, see 9 Ga. St. B. J. 254 (1972).

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Davenport v. Petroleum Delivery Serv. of Ga., Inc., 235 Ga. 116, 218 S.E.2d 848 (1975).

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR. - Conclusiveness, as regards venue, of designation of place of business in incorporation papers, 175 A.L.R. 1092.

Who is "managing agent" of domestic corporation within statute providing for service of summons or process thereon, 71 A.L.R.2d 178.