124 Ga. 742 | Ga. | 1906
(After stating the foregoing facts.)
We think it would be well to require service on all children whose property is to be sold. It may seem anomalous to serve an infant in its cradle; but the very singularity of doing so is very apt to attract the attention of the person or persons having charge of the child and most interested in it, while if an applicant is left to select which one or more of the next of kin he will serve, without serving the child, he may select some complaisant kinsman, not the one really interested. Still, this is a matter for the legislature, not for the courts. Section 4987 of the Civil Code merely declares the mode of service on minors, not when it is necessary.
Judgment reversed.