Georgia Power Company v. Blum

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The defendant filed its plea to the jurisdiction alleging that the venue of this suit should be in Bibb County where the collision occurred, under Code § 94-1101, providing that all actions for damages against electric companies must be brought in the county in which the cause of action originated, and that “any judgment rendered in any county other than the one herein designated shall be utterly void.” In an action for damages against a railroad company and an employee thereof, brought in the county of residence of the latter, for an assault committed by…