Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 46. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION · Chapter 9. TRANSPORTATION OF FREIGHT AND PASSENGERS GENERALLY · Article 7. EXPRESS COMPANIES

46-9-235. Service of process; effect of judgment.

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In all cases where its chief officer does not reside in this state, an express company may be served in any proceeding against it by serving a copy of the summons and complaint upon any agent of such company within this state. The judgment obtained in cases so commenced shall bind the property of the defendant as fully as though the summons and complaint had been served on the president or other chief officer.

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Ga. L. 1862-63, p. 162, § 1; Ga. L. 1865-66, p. 222, § 1; Code 1868, § 3334; Code 1873, § 3411; Code 1882, § 3411; Civil Code 1895, § 2005; Civil Code 1910, § 2386; Code 1933, § 41-202.

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