Hazlehurst v. Seaboard Air-line Railway

The plaintiff brought suit by attachment against the Seabroad Air-Line Railway as a non-resident corporation, making the same returnable to the city court of Macon. The declaration on the attachment claimed damages for the breach of a contract to ship a car-load of frtiit from Richland, in Stewart county, to Toronto, Canada. The defendant filed a plea to the jurisdiction, on the ground that under the provisions of the Civil Code, § 2334, the suit could only be maintained in Stewart county, where the cause of action arose. The plaintiff insists that this section applies to causes of action in…