Opinion
S90G0875.
DECIDED JULY 12, 1990.
Certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Georgia — 194 Ga. App. 795.
Newton, Smith, Durden, Kaufold McIntyre, Wilson R. Smith, for appellant.
Richard D. Phillips, for appellees.
We granted certiorari to the Court of Appeals in Motor Convoy, Inc. v. Brannen, 194 Ga. App. 795 ( 391 S.E.2d 671) (1990), to determine:
Whether a consent judgment between the plaintiff and a joint tort-feasor defendant who is a resident divests a court of personal jurisdiction over a remaining co-defendant who is a nonresident joint tort-feasor.
In the absence of collusion, the question must be answered in the negative.
Judgment affirmed. All the Justices concur.