21 Ga. App. 679 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1918
Mrs. Martilla Smith sued out an attachment against the Jacksonville Oil Mill Company, on the ground that the defendant is a non-resident of this State. It is averred in the affidavit for attachment that the defendant is indebted to the plaintiff “in the sum of five hundred dollars, on a claim for damages for the homicide of her husband.” The attachment was sued out on October 10, 1910, and was returnable to the January, 1911, term of Bartow superior court. On October 13, 1910,- it was duly levied, returned, and docketed; and the clerk’s entry thereon was made to show the docket number of the case, along with the other matter mentioned in the first of the foregoing headnotes. On the next day the plaintiff filed a petition against the defendant, to recover $500 for the homicide of her husband, alleging therein that the defendant is a non-resident of this State. Her petition is entitled in the attachment cause by a statement of the ease at the beginning thereof, wherein the petition is designated by her as her “declaration
The headnotes fully cover the case and need no elaboration.
Judgment reversed.