Chap. 579.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6049 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, in relation to venue in actions at law and suits in equity. [HH B 58]

Approved March 31, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
six thousand and forty-nine of the Code of Virginia 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 or removed.—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
iy 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 subject it to a debt, wherein
such land or any part thereof may be; or if it be against a foreign cor-
poration, wherein its statutory agent resides, or it 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 corporation or resident individual as co-defendant
with a foreign corporation or non-resident individual in a jurisdiction
where such domestic corporation or resident individual could not
otherwise 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 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, either auditor, superintendent of public instruction, or com-
missioner of agriculture; or in which it may be necessary or proper to
make any of the following public corporations a party defendant—to-
wit, the board of education or other public corporation composed of
officers of government, of the funds and property of which the Com-
monwealth is sole owner; or in which it shall be attempted to enjoin
or otherwise suspend or affect any judgment or decree on behalf of the
Commonwealth, or any execution issued on such judgment or decree,
it shall be only in the city of Richmond.

Seventh. Ifa judge of a circuit or corporation court be interested
in a case which, but for such interest, would be proper for the juris-
diction of his court, the action or suit may be brought in any court in
an adjoining circuit or corporation. Any such action or suit hereto-
fore 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.