Case Name: ACE WATERPROOFING COMPANY v. TREMCO MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC.
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1967-06-20
Citations: 116 Ga. App. 226
Docket Number: 42751
Parties: ACE WATERPROOFING COMPANY v. TREMCO MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC.
Judges: Jordan, P. J., and Quillian, J., concur.
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 116
Pages: 226–227

Head Matter:
42751.
ACE WATERPROOFING COMPANY v. TREMCO MANUFACTURING COMPANY, INC.

Opinion:
Deen, Judge.
"The principal place of business of a corporation as fixed by its charter is its legal residence and the only place it can be sued in the absence of the application of special statutory provisions. Hutcheson Mfg. Co. v. Chandler, 29 Ga. App. 726, 728 (116 SE 849); Southern Lumber Co. v. Ramsey-Wheeler Co., 38 Ga. App. 481 (144 SE 349)." Singuefield v. General Oglethorpe Hotel Co., 113 Ga. App. 326 (148 SE2d 92). The corporate charter of the defendant Ace Waterproofing Co., Inc. designates its principal office and place of doing business to be in Fulton County, Ga. It is therefore irrelevant for the purposes of this suit that the physical office of the corporation was moved, presumably by its officers, to Clayton County prior to the filing of the action. The plea to the jurisdiction was properly overruled.
Submitted May 4, 1967
Decided June 20, 1967
Rehearing denied July 26, 1967.
J. B. Wilson, for appellant.
Lipshutz, Macey, Zusmann- & Sikes, J. Timothy White, Larry S. Bryant, for appellees.
Judgment affirmed.
Jordan, P. J., and Quillian, J., concur.