United States Casualty Co. v. Wells

In the chancery court the appellee recovered a decree against the United States Casualty Company, as surety, and the New Orleans Corrugated Box Company, Inc., as principal, under the Louisiana Employers’ Liability Act, Act No. 20 of La. 1914, as amended. Both corporations have appealed to this court.

As to the New Orleans Corrugated Box Company, Inc., it is conceded that the court below erred in retaining jurisdiction of it as being suable in Mississippi, under the circumstances clearly developed in the record. The court. below should have dismissed the cause, and erred in not doing so, under…