Lamar, J. An action for libel was brought in Brooks county against King, a citizen thereof, and other joint defendants who resided in Clinch and Lowndes counties. These latter insist that the superior court of Brooks county had no jurisdiction under that provision of the constitution allowing suits to be brought in the county of the residence of either “joint trespasser” (Civil Code, § 5872); they claim that force is the gist of…
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