Chap. 394.—An ACT to amend and reenact Section 6102 of the Code of Virginia
relating to joinder. {S 208]

Approved April 1, 1948

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section sixty-one hundred and two of the Code of Virginia
be amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:

Section 6102. No action or suit shall abate or be defeated by the
non-joinder or misjoinder of parties, plaintiff or defendant, but whenever
such misjoinder or non-joinder shall be made to appear by affidavit
or otherwise, new parties may be added and parties misjoined may be
dropped by order of the court at any stage of the cause as the ends of
justice may require; and such new parties defendant may be added
upon the affidavit and motion of any defendant, where it appears that
such parties are or may be liable to such plaintiff or defendant for all
or part of plaintiff’s claim; but a new party shall not be added unless
it shall be made to appear that he is a resident of this State or is subject
to service of process therein, and the place of such residence or place
of service be stated with convenient certainty, nor shall a new party be
added if it shall appear that by reason of chapter two hundred thirty-
two or chapter two hundred and thirty-eight the action could not be
maintained against him. Nothing herein contained shall be construed
to permit the joinder of, or addition as a new party, any insurance com-
pany on account of the issuance to any party to a cause any policy or
contract of liability insurance, or on account of the issuance by any
such company of any policy or contract of liability insurance for the
benefit of or that will inure to the benefit of any party to any cause.