Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Bone

Suit was brought in the Jackson circuit court by Miss Elizabeth Smith, a resident of Jackson county, as plaintiff, against petitioners, to recover damages for personal injuries allegedly sustained by her, occasioned by a collision of the automobile in which she was riding with a train of petitioners, at the Biddle crossing on highway No. 65,.in Pulaski county.

Petitioners appeared specially aiid moved to dismiss, plaintiff’s complaint for want of jurisdiction on the ground that the venue of the action was controlled by § 1394 of Pope’s Digest and by Act 314 of 1939; that the complaint shows on…