Cleveland Smith v. Kansas City Southern Railway Company

KING, JUSTICE,

FOR THE COURT:

¶ 1. This interlocutory appeal presents the Court with the question of whether, pursuant to Mississippi’s venue statute, a corporation may have only one national principal place of business or may have a principal place of business in multiple or all states. Cleveland Smith, a resident of Lowndes County, filed suit against his employer, Kansas City Southern Railway Company (“KCS”), in the Lowndes County Circuit Court. The trial court granted KCS’s Motion for a Change of Venue, holding that, although KCS’s national principal place of business was in Kansas City,…