Georgia Power Co. v. Fincher

1. A public officer is presumed to have done his duty, and, in the performance of any judicial act, to have followed the requirements of law. Since service in a suit against an electric company to recover for damage caused by it to person or property may, as provided in section 2798 of the Civil Code of 1910, be perfected upon the company in a *525county other than that in which the suit was filed and the cause of action originated, if the company has no'agent in the latter county; and, since process may issue in such suit, directed to the sheriff of another county in the State, in which the…