Chap. 492.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 6049 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, as amended, relating to the venue of actions at law and suits in equity.
: [S B 269]

Approved March 26, 1928

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

Section 6049. Any action at law or suit in equity, except where it
is otherwise especially provided, may be brought in any county or cor-
poration :

First. Wherein any of the defendants may reside.

Second. If a corporation be a defendant, wherein its principal of-
fice 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 any 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 deceased person, or a suit or action against a personal representa-
tive for a debt of or upon a contract made with his decedent in the
county or corporation wherein the will was admitted. to probate, or
administration was granted on the estate, or if it be against a foreign
corporation, wherein its statutory agent resides, or it has any estate
or debts owing to it within this State: or 1f 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 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, 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 defendan:,
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 attempted to en-
join 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. 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 sut
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.