126 Ga. App. 339 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1972
Krishin H. Bhavnani sued Evershine Products, Inc., a Georgia corporation, for the amount of a judgment with interest thereon which the plaintiff recov
The defendant filed an answer to the action brought in this state and therein alleged: (1) Complaint fails to state a claim against defendant. (2) No proper service of the complaint had been made. (3) The Massachusetts judgment was invalid because the case was never within the jurisdiction of that State. (4) Each and every allegation of the complaint was denied.
Defendant also filed a counterclaim in which he sought judgment against the plaintiff for failure and default in the performance of a contract by and between the parties, said agreement being attached as exhibits (to all intents and purposes the same as those attached to plaintiff’s suit in Massachusetts). Both plaintiff and defendant moved for summary judgment upon the pleadings. After a hearing the court granted the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment and denied the defendant’s motion. The appeal is from this final judgment. Held:
1. The copy of the proceedings in Massachusetts was duly authenticated as a complete and true copy of the record of said proceeding, including the judgment. It shows the suit in Massachusetts involved a petition in equity to set aside an alleged contract and an escrow agreement as to $2,500. It did not involve a suit for personal money demands, hence the case of Hartsog v. Robinson, 115 Ga. App. 824 (156 SE2d 141) is not controlling in the case sub judice.
2. A true copy of the "general laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts” (Ch. 223A, Sec. 3, as amended; and §§ 1, 4 and 6) duly authenticated under the great seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as provided in
The evidence submitted to the court on motion for summary judgment included the duly authenticated foreign judgment of a sister state, which showed that it had jurisdiction of the Georgia corporation under its "long-arm statute.” The defendant failed to offer any testimony to refute the duly authenticated claims of the plaintiff, and the court did not err in granting summary judgment in favor of the plaintiff and denying same as to the contentions of the defendant. International Shoe Co. v. Washington, 326 U. S. 310, 316 (66 SC 154, 90 LE 95, 161 ALR 1057); McGee v. International Life Ins. Co., 355 U. S. 220 (78 SC 199, 2 LE2d 223). The Georgia longarm statute (Code Ann. §24-113.1; Ga. L. 1966, p. 343;
Judgment affirmed.