Owens v. Owens
| Decision Date | 29 November 1939 |
| Docket Number | 13100. |
| Citation | 5 S.E.2d 883,189 Ga. 338 |
| Parties | OWENS v. OWENS. |
| Court | Georgia Supreme Court |
John H. Payne, of Atlanta, for plaintiff in error.
Giles Peters & Spence, of Atlanta, for defendant in error.
Syllabus Opinion by the Court.
1. While an affidavit in forma pauperis, under the Code, §§ 6-1002(2), 24-3623, for the purpose of bringing a bill of exceptions to this court, cannot properly be filed in the trial court until after the rendition of the judgment a review of which is sought (Craig v. State, 108 Ga 776, 33 S.E. 653; Swain v. State, 8 Ga.App. 410, 69 S.E. 310), this writ of error was not subject to dismissal on the ground that such affidavit did not show that it was executed after the date of the judgment. Although it appears that the judgment overruling the demurrers to the petition was rendered on September 8, 1939, and that the affidavit filed with the bill of exceptions in the trial court on September 18 recited that it was sworn to before the notary 'this the ___ day of September, 1939,' the omission of the day was not fatal, in view of the additional recital in the affidavit that 'final judgment' had been rendered adversely to the affiant 'in said case,' which she desired 'to carry * * * to the Supreme Court of Georgia upon a writ of error [and] bill of exceptions concurrently filed herewith,' and that she was unable to pay the costs 'of said case.'
2. The Code, § 30-107, requires that in suits for divorce the plaintiff must have been 'a bona fide resident of the State 12 months before the filing of the application for divorce,' and the amendatory act of 1939, Ga.L.1939, p 203, permits such filing by any other person only when 'a resident of any United States Army Post or Military Reservation within the State * * * for one year' previously thereto. Such a petitioner 'must allege and prove that he has been a bona fide resident of the state for' the required length of time. Dicks v Dicks, 177 Ga. 379, 382, 170 S.E. 245, 246. 'This jurisdictional averment is essential to every application for a divorce.' Griffin v. Griffin, 130 Ga. 527(5), 532, 61 S.E. 16, 18, 16 L.R.A.,N.S., 937, 14 Ann.Cas. 866. See Bellamy v. Bellamy, 187 Ga. 56, 58, 199 S.E. 745.
There being no semblance of such a necessary jurisdictional allegation in the instant petition, the court erred in overruling the general demurrer on the ground that the petition did not state a cause of...
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