Life & Casualty Ins. v. Gardner

This suit was filed in the circuit court of Washington county, at Jonesboro, and served upon a local agent in charge of the company’s local office in Washington county, to reduce to judgment an insurance policy issued by the defendant at its home office in Nashville upon the life of Connie G. Gardner, Jr., deceased, a minor insured as a telegraph messenger boy. The defendant filed a plea in abatement to the jurisdiction of the court on the ground that the venue of the cause of action lay in the law court of Washington county, and not the circuit court, and that the law court had exclusive…