Planters Rural Telephone Cooperative, Inc. v. Chance

Hall, Judge.

The plaintiff contends that he is not barred by the statute of limitation from, bringing .the present suit because the provisions of Code § 3-808 are applicable, his former suit having been dismissed on the ground of jurisdiction only in that the defendant corporation was not a resident of the county in which the suit was brought. Code § 3-808 provides: “If a plaintiff shall be nonsuited, or shall discontinue or dismiss his case, and shall recommence ydthin six months, such renewed case shall stand upon the same footing as to limitation, with the original case . . .”

“A void suit…