World Carriers, Incorporated, a Corporation v. Louis L. Bright, Lemel Silas v. Paroh Steamship Corporation

HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge.

In each of these cases, brought under the Jones Act against foreign corporations alleged to be doing business in Virginia but not domesticated there, substituted service of process was attempted by service upon Virginia’s Secretary of the Commonwealth upon the assumption that § 13-217 1 was controlling. The cases were tried and disposed of below upon the same assumption.

For the first time, it has now been made to appear that, prior to the commencement of either action, § 13-217 had been repealed insofar as it applied to an undomesticated, uncertificated foreign…