Trammell v. Eberhardt
Decision Date | 29 June 1982 |
Docket Number | No. 63612,63612 |
Parties | TRAMMELL v. EBERHARDT et al. |
Court | Georgia Court of Appeals |
Page 32
293 S.E.2d 32
162 Ga.App. 753
TRAMMELL v. EBERHARDT et al.
No. 63612.
Court of Appeals of Georgia.
June 29, 1982.
Charles S. Wynne, John H. Smith, Weymon H. Forrester, Gainesville, for appellant.
Jack Davidson, Jefferson, Sam S. Harben, Jr., J. Douglas Parks, Robert L. Husby, Jr., Gainesville, for appellees.
POPE, Judge.
Steven Eberhardt, a resident of Oconee County, while driving a truck owned by his employer, Farmer's Hardware, Inc. of Athens, was involved in an automobile accident in Lumpkin County with an auto of the defendant Robert L. Dowdy and an auto of the defendant Mamie Lee Trammell, both residents of Lumpkin County. Eberhardt sued Dowdy and Trammell in Lumpkin County as joint tortfeasors. Trammell filed a cross-claim against her co-defendant Dowdy and a third-party counterclaim against plaintiff Eberhardt and his employer Farmer's Hardware, all as joint tortfeasors. The trial court denied Trammell's motion to add Farmer's Hardware, a nonresident, as a third-party defendant due to improper venue.
On appeal Trammell claims that the trial court erred in denying her motion to add Farmer's Hardware as a party. The question presented here is whether the cross-claim against the resident defendant Dowdy gives the trial court jurisdiction as to the nonresident third-party defendant Farmer's Hardware.
Art. VI, Sec. XIV, Par. IV of the Constitution of Georgia, 1976, (Ga.Code Ann. § 2-4304) provides that joint promissors, co-partners, or joint trespassers residing in different counties may be tried in either county. Joint trespassers have been held to be synonymous with joint tortfeasors. Southern R. Co. v. City of Rome, 179 Ga. 449, 176 S.E. 7 (1934). "The Constitution does not concern itself with whether the joint tortfeasors be cross-defendants, third-party defendants or a combination of the two. It merely provides that suits against joint tortfeasors residing in different counties may be brought in either county." Lester Witte & Co. v. Cobb Bank & Trust Co., 248 Ga. 235, 236, 282 S.E.2d 296 (1981).
Under Code Ann. § 2-4304 "... the proper inquiry is whether the cross-defendant and the third-party defendants are alleged or can be shown to be joint tortfeasors. Where they are or can be, they may be sued in the county of residence of the cross-defendant." Lester Witte & Co. v. Cobb Bank & Trust. Co., supra at 237, 282 S.E.2d 296. Thus, the trial court erred in denying the appellant's motion to add Farmer's Hardware as a...
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