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COMMERCIAL CARRIER CORPORATION v. MERCER

No. 68-512.

226 So.2d 270 (1969)

COMMERCIAL CARRIER CORPORATION, a Corporation, and Clay Hyder Trucking Lines, a North Carolina Corporation, Appellants, v. Levada MERCER, As Executrix of the Estate of G.B. Nichols, Deceased, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Second District.

September 5, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Maney and John W. Boult, of Fowler, White, Collins, Gillen, Humkey & Trenam, Tampa, for appellants.

E.B. Rood, of Rood, Hapner & Rivers, and John R. Parkhill, Tampa, for appellee.

McNULTY, Judge.

Appellant corporations were defendants in a negligence action brought by appellee in Hillsborough County. Their plea of privilege on venue was denied and they bring this interlocutory appeal. The cause of action arose in South Carolina, so situs is not relevant to the venue question here. The question is whether the defendants reside in "different" counties within the purview of § 47.021, F.S.A.

We must first look to § 47.051...

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