Liberty Life Assur. Soc. v. Woodard

A “domestic corporation may be sued in any county in which it does business by agent, or was doing business by agent at the time the cause of action arose.” Code 1923, § 10471. The time the cause of action arose in cases of tort or in transactions fixing an immediate liability to suit is when the tort was committed or the transaction had.

In actions on a life insurance policy or fraternal benefit certificate as here, the policy may have been issued many years prior to the death of the insured, and the insuring corporation may -have long since ceased to do business in the county where issued;…