Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co. v. Pope

Almand, Justice.

Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, hereinafter referred to as the employer, brought its petition in equity to restrain N. E. Pope, hereinafter referred to as the employee, from prosecuting his action in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama, under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act, for alleged personal injuries sustained in Ben Hill County, Georgia, his place of residence. The substance of the employer’s complaint was that the employee’s suit was brought in the Alabama court for the purpose of unreasonably and inequitably burdening the employer and subjecting it…