American Surety Co. v. City of Holly Springs

Citations

• 77 Miss. 428

Syllabus

<p>1. Circuit Courts. Jv/rlscHcUon. Venue. Code 1892, l 650.</p> <p>Under code 1892, § 650, providing for tlie venue of civil actions in the circuit courts, such actions must be brought in the circuit court of the county where the defendant, or some one of them if there bé several, may he found.</p> <p>2. Same. Foreign surety companies. La/ws 1894, p. 53.</p> <p>The act of 1894 (Laws 1894, chapter 64, p. 52) authorizing foreign surety companies to do business in this state, does not create an exception to the rule embodied in said code section (code 1892, § 650), and such a company can be sued only in the circuit court of a county in which it has an agent upon whom process can there be served.</p> <p>3. Same.</p> <p>The circuit court of Marshall county is without jurisdiction of a suit against a foreign surety company doing business in this state the summons in which, under said act of 1894, was served only on the secretary of state in Hinds county.</p>