Chap. 198.—An ACT to provide where suits may be brought against tele-
graph and telephone companies for failing to transmit or deliver messages
promptly and as required by law.

Approved March 12, 1908.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That it shall
be lawful to institute suits against telegraph and telephone companies
for the legal penalty, and for any damage which may be sustained in
consequence of the failure of said companies to transmit or deliver
messages as required by section six of chapter eight of an act of the
general assembly of Virginia entitled, “an act concerning public service
corporations,” approved January eighteenth, nineteen hundred and four,
and section five of the same act as amended by an act approved March
seventeenth, nineteen hundred and six, in any court of competent
jurisdiction either in the county or city from which the message was
transmitted or accepted for transmission, or at the county or city of
delivery or failure of delivery; provided, that all courts which at the
passage of this act have jurisdiction of such suits shall retain such
jurisdiction.