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WORLD CARRIERS, INCORPORATED v. BRIGHT

Nos. 7996, 7997.

276 F.2d 857 (1960)

WORLD CARRIERS, INCORPORATED, a corporation, Appellant, v. Louis L. BRIGHT, Appellee. Lemel SILAS, Appellant, v. PAROH STEAMSHIP CORPORATION, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 18, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry E. McCoy, Norfolk, Va. (Seawell, McCoy, Winston & Dalton, Norfolk, Va., on the brief) for World Carriers, Inc., and Paroh S.S. Corp.

Sidney H. Kelsey, Norfolk, Va., for Bright and Silas.

Before SOBELOFF, Chief Judge, and HAYNSWORTH and BOREMAN, Circuit Judges.

HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge.

In each of these cases, brought under the Jones Act against foreign corporations alleged to be doing business in Virginia but not domesticated there, substituted service of process was attempted by service upon Virginia's Secretary of the Commonwealth upon the assumption that § 13-2171 was controlling. The cases were tried and disposed of below upon the same assumption.

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