127 Ga. 663 | Ga. | 1907
The Civil Code, §4518, provides that attachments against nonresidents may be made returnable to the superior court of any -county of the State, where the amount exceeds $100. Nashville R. Co. v. Cleghorn, 94 Ga. 413. The act creating the city court of Brunswick declares that “the Judge of said city court may, or any Justice of the peace or notary public may, issue attachments returnable to said city court under the same laws that govern the issuing of attachments returnable to the superior courts.” Acts 1895, pp. 374, 378, sec. 18. It is said in the act that all laws upon the subject of attachments and 'garnishments as to any matter whatever in the superior courts shall apply to said city court “so far as the nature of the city court will admit.” . It is suggested that, this being a court having limited territorial Jurisdiction in Glynn county, the clause last cited prevented the issuing of an attachment by an officer of Ware county returnable to it. We can not agree to this proposition. The clause was doubtless inserted with a view to the fact that by its nature the court might
Judgment affirmed.