Legal Opinion
Lightfoot v. Atlantic Coast Line R.
District Court, E.D. South Carolina
Decided July 9, 1929PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GLENN, District Judge.
The plaintiffs in this suit are residents of the state of Missouri, the defendant Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Campany is a resident and citizen of the state of Virginia. The cause of aetion arose out of a shipment of poultry from Missouri to Florida, obviously and admittedly a transaction beyond the boundaries of South Carolina. This cause was begun in the court of common pleas for Richland county and was removed to this court by the defendant, who in due time interposed a demurrer to the jurisdiction, on the ground that a nonresident could not sue a foreign corporation…
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