56 Ga. App. 140 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1937
1. Where a defendant in attachment has not .been served personally with notice of the pendency of the attachment, has not appeared and made defense, and has not given bond and security to replevy the property attached, the judgment on the attachment shall bind only the property attached, and shall be entered only against such property, whether the property is attached by levy or by summons of garnishment. Code, § 8-901.
3. “In attachment, not until after there has been rendered such final judgment as the law provides for, is it too late to appear and plead. A general judgment against the defendant in personam, where only a special judgment against the property was authorized, is not absolutely final, and does not exclude subsequent appearance and the filing of a plea.” Kimball v. Nicol, 58 Ga. 175. See also Carithers v. Venable, 52 Ga. 389.
4. The motion of the defendant in attachment that the verdict and judgment be set aside on the ground that the judgment was illegal and void in that it was a general judgment rendered where the defendant had not appeared and pleaded, had not given bond and security to replevy the property attached, and had not been personally served with notice of the pendency of the attachment, set out a valid ground for setting aside the verdict and judgment.
5. The defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict and judg
6. The court did not err in overruling the plaintiff’s demurrer to the defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict and judgment.
7. The judgment setting aside the verdict and judgment in attachment against the defendant, and giving the defendant an opportunity to file a plea to the plaintiff’s suit in attachment, was authorized.
Judgment affirmed.