Empire State Insurance v. Collins
Supreme Court of Georgia
Insurance. Venue. Jurisdiction. Contracts. Corporations. Before Judge Hill. Bibb Superior Court. April Term,‘18 74. This case is sufficiently reported in the above head-notes.
1Opinion of the Court
Trippe, Judge.
1. We do not think that an action can be brought against an insurance company outside of the county where its principal office is located, unless it be in some county where' it has an agency or place of doing business when suit is brought, and wdiich agency or place of doing business was located in such county at the time the cause of action accrued, or the contract was made, out of which said cause of action arose. This is the plain provision of section 3408 of the Code. It is true the next section, (3409) in providing for effecting service, seems to imply that a suit may have…
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