McWhorter v. Williams

GARDNER, Justice.

Complainants seek injunctive relief against the further prosecution of damage suits by defendants in the courts of Tennessee; the collision out of which these suits arose having occurred in Alabama where defendants reside.

The equity of the bill is primarily rested upon the case of Weaver v. Ala. Great Southern R. R. Co., 200 Ala. 432, 76 So. 364, in which was the holding that where both parties to an action in a sister state are residents of this state, a court of equity may here act in personam and enjoin further prosecution of such suit, where its purpose is to evade the…