Smith v. Van Noy Interstate Co.

■Mr. Justice Hall

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The petitioner, John Thomas Jefferson Smith, is a resident of the city of Memphis, Shelby county, Tenn.

The Van Noy Interstate Company is a corporation with an office and agent in the city of Memphis, Shelby county, Tenn., and is engaged in the operation of railroad hotels and eating houses in a number of the States of the union.

The Ocean Accident & Guaranty Insurance Company of London is an English corporation, but is domesticated and qualified to do business in this State., On March 2, 1922, the agent of the Van Noy Interstate Company at…