Glover v. Donaldson

How courts have described this case

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• affirming that Section 10 (t) of the MARTA Act “is not limited to suits arising out of revenue bonds”
• holding that plaintiff could pursue lawsuit in DeKalb County against MARTA and its bus driver because the plaintiff named as a joint tortfeasor a DeKalb County resident who was operating a vehicle that stuck and killed a child exiting the MARTA bus
• legislature may fix residence of transit authority for venue purposes, but constitutional venue provision for joint tortfeasors controlled where transit authority was sued along with other tortfeasors
• legislature may fix residence of transit authority for venue purposes, but constitutional venue provision for joint tortfeasors controlled where transit authority was sued along with other tortfeasors
• “The General Assembly may fix the residence of MARTA for venue purposes when it is sued alone . . . , but the Constitution . . . provides the venue when MARTA is sued as a joint tortfeasor.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).