Missouri Pac. R.R., Thompson, Trustee v. Lawrence

Appellee recovered judgment for $25,000 to compensate an injury which he sustained in a collision between one of the passenger trains of appellant railroad company and a taxicab he was driving in the City of Little Rock.

A motion was filed to dismiss the case upon the ground that the Clark County Circuit Court, where the suit was brought and tried, was without jurisdiction thereof, inasmuch as appellee was not a resident of that county and the injury occurred in another. The motion was overruled and the trial resulted in the judgment which this appeal seeks to reverse.

The venue of this and…