68 So. 55 | Ala. | 1915
The appellant instituted this action against the appellee, in the city of Bessemer, in Jefferson county, for a tortious breach of duty, by the appellee’s conductor, in ejecting the plaintiff from a train because it was asserted by the conductor, plain
The plantiff resided, when thus ejected and at the time the suit Avas commenced, in Shelby county, Ala.; and his alleged ejection from the defendant’s carriage was effected in Shelby county. The defendant was then and has ever since conducted business in Shelby county by agent; as also it did then and has ever since done at Bessemer, in Jefferson county. ,The court gave effect to a plea to the jurisdiction based on these facts, thus abating the action. Code, 6112, provides: “A foreign or domestic corporation may be sued in any county in which it does business by agent; but all actions for personal injuries must be brought in the county where the injury occurred, or in the county where the plaintiff resides, if such corporation does business by agent in the county of plaintiff’s residence.”
The argument for appellant in support of the first stated contention necessarily resolves itself into the af
The thus established considerations refute any notion that the statute in question is violative of section 22 or 240 of the Constitution of Alabama or of the fourteenth amendment to the federal Constitution.
There is no error in the record. Hence the judgment • appealed from- must be affirmed.
Affirmed.