Lake Carroll Holdings v. Bunning

By JUDGE HENRY H. WHITING

This Court has before it demurrers (treated by agreement as motions to dismiss) to two common law actions filed against the defendant by his former employers seeking to recover advances made to him by those employers. He contends that these actions cannot be maintained in the Courts of Virginia unless and until both such corporations "domesticate" in Virginia since they were "doing business" in Virginia at the time the alleged causes of action arose.

The parties have submitted the case to the Court on the discovery taken. It establishes that the defendant was a general…