Belcher

In Galpin v. Page, 18 Wall. 336 , the Supreme Court of the United States said: “ The presumptions which the law implies in support of the judgments of superior Courts of general jurisdiction only arise with respect to jurisdictional facts concerning which the record is silent. Presumptions arc only indulged to supply the absence of evidence or averments respecting the facts presumed. They have no place for consideration when the evidence is disclosed or the averment is made. When, therefore, the record states the evidence or makes an averment with reference to a jurisdictional fact, it will be understood to speak the truth on that point, and it will not be presumed that there was other or different evidence respecting the fact, or that the fact was otherwise than as averred. If, for example, it appears, from the return of the officer or the proof of service contained in the record, that the summons was served at a particular place, and there is no averment of any other service, it will not be presumed that service was also made at another and different place; or if it appear in like manner that the service was made upon a person other than the defendant, it will not be presumed,…