Mid-Ga. Bandag Co., Inc. v. National Equipment Rental, Ltd.
Decision Date | 21 October 1982 |
Docket Number | No. 64750,MID-GA,64750 |
Citation | 164 Ga.App. 68,296 S.E.2d 391 |
Parties | BANDAG COMPANY, INC., et al. v. NATIONAL EQUIPMENT RENTAL, LTD. |
Court | Georgia Court of Appeals |
Edwin G. Russell, Jr., Atlanta, for appellants.
Andrew J. Whalen, III, Griffin, Douglas W. Kessler, Atlanta, for appellee.
The appellee obtained a judgment against the appellants in the State of New York and instituted this action in Georgia to domesticate the New York judgment. This appeal is from the grant of summary judgment in favor of the appellee. The appellants enumerate as error, among others, that the trial court domesticated the New York judgment without requiring proof of its validity in New York. Held:
The appellee plead and introduced in evidence a judgment of the New York court meeting the requirements quoted above. In addition, appellee introduced the affidavit of the attorney who obtained the New York judgment showing that the judgment was obtained after service on the defendants by certified mail. In these respects, the case before us is distinguished from Ramseur v. American Management Ass'n, 155 Ga.App. 340, 270 S.E.2d 880 (1980), relied upon by appellants because the appellee in that case apparently failed to show any proper foundation to support the jurisdiction of the court which rendered the judgment.
2. The appellants next contend that reversal is required because the "choice of forum" clause in the contract sued upon in the New York court renders it void and unenforceable. See Code Ann. § 20-504. This enumeration of error is also without merit. "Jurisdictional issues adjudicated in the foreign judgment may not now be raised. Gordon v. Gordon, 237 Ga. 171(1), 227 S.E.2d 53. Similarly, '[t]he doctrine of res judicata makes a prior judgment conclusive between the parties and their privies as to all matters put in issue or that might have been put in issue." [Cits.]' Colodny v. Dominion Mortg. etc. Co., 142 Ga.App. 730, 236 S.E.2d 917 ..." Shackelford v. Central Bank of Miss., 148 Ga.App. 494(1), 251 S.E.2d 569 (1978). Also see West...
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