Payne v. Southern Cotton Oil Co.

1. An action by a corporation, resident of New Jersey, against a corporation, resident of Virginia, having an agency in Chatham County, Georgia, could not originally have been brought in the district court of the United States for the southern district of Georgia, and hence could not be removed to that court from the superior court of Chatham county on the ground of diverse citizenship. See Pullman Co. v. Sutherlin, 150 Ga. 652 (104 S. E. 782).

2. An action by Southern Cotton Oil Company, resident of the State of New Jersey, against John Barton Payne, director-general of railroads as agent…