Southern Railway Co. v. Lawson

Pope, Judge.

On October 12, 1980 Timmy Lee Lawson, the minor child of plaintiffs-appellees (the Lawsons) was struck and killed in Stephens County by a train owned and operated by defendant-appellant Southern Railway Company, a Virginia corporation authorized to transact business in Georgia. As a result, on October 11, 1982 the Lawsons filed suit against Southern Railway and others in the Superior Court of Stephens County where Southern Railway has an agent and the others are residents. The action in Stephens County was voluntarily dismissed without prejudice by the Lawsons on October 21, 1983,…