O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 44-11-11 (2019)

Necessity for substitution upon death of codefendant in ejectment

✓ 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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If a codefendant in any action of ejectment dies after the commencement of the action, the action may proceed against the surviving defendant without making the representative of the deceased codefendant a party.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 3374; Code 1868, § 3393; Code 1873, § 3441; Code 1882,

§ 3441; Civil Code 1895, § 5038; Civil Code 1910, § 5620; Code 1933, § 33-116.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Procedure upon death of sole defendant. - After the sole defendant in an action of ejectment has died, and another defendant has been brought in, and has pleaded to the merits, the action may

proceed as to the latter, without making the representatives of the former a party. Gardner v. Granniss, 57 Ga. 539, 1876 Ga. LEXIS 169 (1876).

RESEARCH REFERENCES C.J.S. 28A C.J.S., Ejectment, § 51 et seq. ALR. Abatement by pendency of another ac-

tion as affected by addition or omission of parties defendant in second suit, 44 A.L.R. 806.