70 Ga. 585 | Ga. | 1883
The only question made in this case is as to the legality of the service upon the defendant in the court below. That service was perfected in the manner pointed out by law.
In the year 1860, an act was passed to enable parties having claims against the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Company, in the state of Georgia, to perfect service upon it. It recited in the preamble, that there being no station or agent in the state upon whom to perfect service on said company for injuries to stock, property or person, it was, therefore, enacted that the justices of the inferior court in and for the county of Dade should cause to be erected a post, at a place in said county known as Lookout; and upon any process, warrant, summons or notice, from any of the courts of this state, being issued against said company, and the same being posted on said post, and a
To the foregoing act an amendment was passed in 1869, in which, after reciting the fact that the said railroad company had discontinued the depot or way-station at Lookout, it was, therefore, enacted that the ordinary of the county of Dade should cause to be erected a post at the place on the said railroad known as Hooker, and upon which such legal notices as provided for in the act of 1860 should be thereafter posted, and copies sent by mail, as required by the said act, to the president of the company, and this waste be deemed and held as full and complete service.
In support of this view, we are cited to a clause in the constitution of 1868, copied substantially from the constitution of 1861, which declares that laws shall have a general operation, and no general law affecting private rights shall be varied in any particular case by special legislation, except by the free consent in writing of the person, to be affected thereby, etc.
We think it sufficient to say, in reference to this objection, that the act of 1860 was not to be affected by the foregoing clause of the constitutions of 1861 or 1868, if indeed it could be construed to- refer to the particular-subject-matter of that act at all. Nor could it be said to-be operative upon the amendment of 1869, which only changed the place at which the post, provided for by the-act of I860, was to be erected. Besides, it could in no sense be applicable to the case at bar, because the acts of 1845 and 1855, which are said to be the general laws upon the subject of the service of corporations having no place of doing business, or no individual upon whom service
We hold, therefore, that the service was good, and no ■error was committed by the court below in his judgment on that point.
Judgment affirmed.