114 Ga. App. 364 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1966
“Residence” and “domicile” are not synonymous and convertible terms. Worsham v. Ligon, 144 Ga. 707, 711 (87 SE 1025); Avery v. Bower, 170 Ga. 202, 204 (152 SE 239); Commercial Bank v. Pharr, 75 Ga. App. 364, 376 (43 SE2d 439). This being so, it seems inconsistent to hold, as held in Daniel v. Sullivan, 46 Ga. 277 (1872), that one’s legal residence for the purpose of being sued in this state is necessarily the same county as his domicile where domicile is determined by that part of Code § 79-401 which provides, “The domicile of every person of full age, and laboring under no disability, is the place where the family of
Judgment reversed.