Knower v. Baldwin

Mrs. Baldwin brought suit in the circuit court of Jefferson Davis County for damages suffered in a collision with an automobile driven by Knower, a traveling salesman for Helbros Watch Company, Inc., a foreign corporation.

The only assignments of error argued relate to the action of the trial court in overruling a plea of the corporation to the jurisdiction, and its denial of the motion by Knower to transfer the cause against him to the circuit court of Harrison County.

The argument raises the factual issue as to whether Knower was such agent of the corporation as would render process upon him…