BROWN v. SEABOARD COAST LINE RAILROAD CO.

46800.

127 Ga. App. 342 (1972)

193 S.E.2d 192

BROWN v. SEABOARD COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided October 17, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Parks & Eisenberg, David S. Eisenberg, for appellant.

Troutman, Sanders, Lockerman & Ashmore, Robert L. Pennington, Jeffrey R. Nickerson, for appellee.


PANNELL, Judge.

The courts of this State may not apply the doctrine of forum non conveniens to an action under the Federal Employers' Liability Act properly brought in a court in this State by a citizen of another State on a cause of action originating in yet another State, so as to refuse to exercise its jurisdiction and dismiss without prejudice the action so brought. Brown v. Seaboard C. L. R. Co., 229 Ga. 481, answering certified...

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