Southern Cotton Oil Co. v. Atlantic Coast Line R.
District Court, S.D. Georgia
At Law. Separate actions by the Southern Cotton Oil Company against the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, and by W. H. Wade, as administrator of James Henry Petit, against the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company. On traverse of the entry of service.
1Opinion of the Court
BEVERLY D. EVANS, District Judge.
These cases were heard on the same day, and, as the point for present decision is identical, they will be considered together. That point arises on a traverse of the entry of service, wherein service on the defendant corporation is stated as having been made by serving a designated individual as an agent of the defendant corporation. I find as a conclusion of fact, based on an agreement in the first case and upon a consideration of 1he evidence submitted in the other, that the cause of action in each case originated prior to the Act for Federal Control of…
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- Rutherford v. Union Pac. R.District Court, D. Nebraska · 1919
- Cherry v. North & South RailroadSupreme Court of Georgia · 1877
- Ocean Steamship Co. v. Wilder & Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1899
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- Louisville N. R. Co. v. HolmesSupreme Court of Alabama · 1921
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