185 Ga. 343 | Ga. | 1938
1. “Creditors . . may attack a judgment for any defect appearing on the face of the record or pleadings, or for fraud or collusion, whenever it interferes with their rights, either at law or in equity.” Code, § 110-711. “When a judgment has been rendered, either party may move in arrest thereof, or to set it aside for any defect not amendable which appears on the face of the record or pleadings.” § 110-702. The right of a creditor, under § 110-711, to attack the judgment of another creditor because of an alleged “defect appearing on the face of the record or pleadings” does not extend to mere “irregularities previous to the judgment; [but] the defects . . must be such as are not amendable.” Stanford v. Bradford, 45 Ga. 97; Chapman v. Taliaferro, 1 Ga. App. 235 (3) (58 S. E. 128). The rule is thus the same as that which controls on a motion in arrest or to set aside a judgment, in that the defect must be one which was “not amendable.” On a motion in arrest, a petition, although defective and although subject to general demurrer, in that it
2. Even though a petition brought in the name of “George S. VanSchaick, Superintendent of Insurance of the State of New York,” suing in this State an agent of a New York insurance company for premiums due to the company, might be construed as brought individually, since the language describing the official character of the plaintiff might be taken as descriptio personae (Atkinson v. Cawley, 112 Ga. 485, 37 S. E. 715; Sudderth v. Harris, 51 Ga. App. 654 (2), 181 S. E. 122, and cit.), the plaintiff by proper amendment could have inserted the word “as” before the statement of his official position, so as to show that the petition was brought in “his representative character” (Code, § 81-1308; Anderson v. Bennett, 160 Ga. 517, 128 S. E. 660), and could thus have conformed his pleading to the verdict and judgment, which were rendered in his favor in his representative capacity, “as Superintendent of Insurance of the State of New York.”
3. “While a chancery or statutory receiver can not sue in the courts of a foreign jurisdiction by virtue of his appointment alone, he can do so when he is expressly authorized by statute to sue, or when he is expressly or by necessary implication vested with title, or when he is made a quasi-assignee or representative of credit
4. The judgment not being subject to attack by a junior-lien creditor, on the instant intervention, the court did not err in dismissing the intervention on general demurrer.
Judgment affirmed.