Grading, Inc. v. Cook

Code § 22-1101 provides two methods by which service may be obtained on a corporation doing business in Georgia: (1) by serving any officer or agent of the corporation, and (2) by leaving a copy of process at the office and place of doing business of the corporation. This section further provides that the officer who perfects the service shall specify the mode of service in his return.

The return of service in the present case reads as follows: “Georgia, DeKalb County: Served the defendant Grading, Inc., a corporation by serving C. C. Pettett, engineer, by leaving a copy of the within writ and…