Virginia Lumber Corp. v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad

A rehearing was granted in this case. This court does not recede from the principle laid down in the opinion first rendered, to the effect that a suit against foreign railroad corporations doing business in. this State by operating a domestic railroad-line as joint lessees and by operating their own separate lines of railway and having agents in this State may be brought by a citizen of this State in the same manner as suits are brought against domestic railroad corporations on account of causes of action originating in another State; that a cause of action ex delicto against such nonresident…