4 Ga. App. 447 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1908
The plaintiffs in error were the plaintiffs in a certiorari. The certiorari bond was signed: “Foley & Williams Mfg. Co. (L.S.), per S. A. Eibola, Treasurer; also by its attorneys at law, Bicketson & Hale (L.S.), United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. (L.S.), by its' attorney in fact, T. H. Parker, (L.S.) f and the corporate seal of the guaranty company was attached. In the superior court a motion to dismiss the certiorari, for lack of a sufficient bond, was sustained; and the plaintiffs in certiorari bring error.
A bond purporting to have been executed by a corporate agent or officer, and bearing either the common seal of the corporation or a scroll or similar device for the nonce adopted in substitution for the common seal, will, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be presumed to be the corporate act and deed; and a certiorari bond so executed is prima facie valid. New York Life Ins. Co. v. Rhodes, ante, 25 (60 S. E. 828); Solomon’s Lodge v. Montmollin, 58 Ga. 547. See also American Investment Co. v. Cable Co., ante, 106 (60 S. E. 1037). Further, by statute the attorney at law of a plaintiff in certiorari has ample authority to execute the bond in behalf of his client. Civil Code, §4637.