Chap. 71.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6049 of the Code of Virginia,
as heretofore amended, in relation to jurisdiction of courts. [H B 62]

Approved March 1, 1932

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
six thousand and forty-nine of the Code of Virginia, as heretofore
amended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 6049. The county or corporation in which actions at law
or suits in equity may be brought.—Any action at law or suit in equity,
except where it is otherwise especially provided, may be brought in
any county or corporation:

First. Wherein any of the defendants may reside.

Second. If a corporation be a defendant, wherein its principal
office is, or wherein its mayor, rector, president, or other chief officer
resides. ,

Third. If it be to recover a loss under a policy of insurance, either
upon property or life, wherein the property insured was situated at
the date of the policy, or the person whose life was insured resided at
the date of his death or at the date of the policy.

Fourth. If it be to recover land or to subject it to a debt, wherein
such land or part of it may be; if it be a suit to construe a will or for
the direction of the court in the administration of the estate of a de-
ceased person, or a suit or action against a personal representative,
curator, committee, guardian or other fiduciary, in the county or cor-
poration wherein the will was admitted to probate, or such fiduciary
qualified; or if it be against a foreign corporation, wherein its statu-
tory agent resides, or has any estate or debts owing to it within this
State; or if it be against a defendant who resides without this State,
wherein he may be found and served with process, or may have estate
or debts due him, provided, however, that nothing contained in this act
shall be so construed as to permit the joining of a domestic corpora-
tion or resident individual as co-defendant with a foreign corporation
or non-resident individual in a jurisdiction where such domestic cor-
poration or resident individual could not be sued.

Fifth. If it be on behalf of the Commonwealth, whether in the
name of the attorney general, or otherwise, it may be in the city of
Richmond.

Sixth. If it be an action or a suit in which it is necessary or proper
to make any of the following public officers a party defendant, to-wit,
the governor, attorney general, treasurer, secretary of the Common-
wealth, comptroller, superintendent of public instruction, or commis-
sioner of agriculture and immigration; or in which it may be necessary
or proper to make any of the following public corporations a party de-
fendant, to-wit, the board of education, or other public corporation
composed of officers of government, of the funds and property of
which the Commonwealth is sole owner; or in which it shall be at-
tempted to enjoin or otherwise suspend or affect any judgment or de-
cree on behalf of the Commonwealth, or any execution issued on such
judgment or decree, it shall be only in the city of Richmond.

Seventh. If any judge of a circuit or corporation court be inter-
ested in a case which, but for such interest would be proper for the
jurisdiction of his court, the action or suit may be brought in any
court in an adjoining circuit or corporation. Any such action or suit
heretofore or hereafter brought in any county or corporation within
the territorial limits of the jurisdiction of such judge, shall, on motion
of any party thereto, be removed to the circuit or corporation court of
a county or corporation in an adjoining circuit.

2. An emergency existing, this act shall be in force from its passage.