28 Ga. App. 646 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1922
(After stating the foregoing facts.) In Caldwell v. Alexander Seed Co., 17 Ga. App. 571 (87 S. E. 843), this court, citing the cases of Powell v. Perry, 63 Ga. 417, Hill v. Hatcher, 53 Ga. 291, Callaway v. Harrold, 61 Ga. 112; Hillyer v. Pearson, 118 Ga. 817 (45 S. E. 701), quoted and approved as the law the syllabus in the ease of Strauss v. Owens, 6 Ga. App. 415 (65 S. E. 161): “Where a second original is issued for the purpose of serving a defendant residing in a county other than that in which the suit is pending, the process therein should be directed to the sheriff of the county in which the defendant so to be served resided. . . A sheriff of one county cannot legally serve a process directed to the sheriff of another county. If he attempts to do so, and a judgment by default is entered against
Judgment reversed.