Devereux v. Atlanta Railway & Power Co.

1. Section 2334 of the Civil Code requires all suits against railroad companies for damages to person or property to be brought in the county wherein the cause of action originates, with the sole exception that if the cause of action arises in a county where the company has no agent, the suit may be brought elsewhere. The sole jurisdictional fact being the place of the origin of the cause of action, and the statute not *856superadding the further fact of the residence of an agent as one requisite to jurisdiction, it must be held that the scheme of the law is to make the jurisdiction exclusive in…