104 Ga. 51 | Ga. | 1898
The United Press and the Associated Press are both corporations of the State of Illinois. The former sued ■out against the latter, which had no office or place of doing business in this State, an attachment returnable to the October term, 1894, of the superior court of Richmond county, and •caused a summons of garnishment to be served upon Patrick Walsh, as manager and treasurer of the Southern Associated Press, a corporation of the State of Alabama, which has no office in Georgia and does not transact any corporate business in this State. The plaintiff filed its declaration August 1, 1894. Subsequently Walsh answered, admitting that the Southern Associated Press was indebted to the defendant in a stated sum. The defendant, on November 12, 1894, during the appearance term, filed an answer to the plaintiff’s petition. Afterwards, but before the end of that term, the defendant filed a motion to dismiss the. attachment and the plaintiff’s action, and also a demurrer to the petition, and on the same day obtained an
Under the circumstances just detailed, the question of waiver had become entirely eliminated prior to the hearing which was had upon the motion to dismiss and the demurrer; and it having thus been finally determined that the defendant had a right to stand upon the same in defense to the action, it only remained to pass upon their legal sufficiency. We therefore hold that, in passing the order in question, the court adjudicated that the defendant would thereby be placed in the position it sought to occupy, viz., that of appearing exclusively for the purpose of interposing its contention that the court had no
Our conclusion therefore is, that the trial judge erred in not dismissing the plaintiff’s action.
Judgment reversed.