BUCHANAN v. NORFOLK TAXICAB CORP.

Civ. A. No. 1201.

95 F.Supp. 810 (1951)

BUCHANAN v. NORFOLK TAXICAB CORP. et al.

United States District Court E. D. Virginia, Norfolk Division.

February 28, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James G. Martin, James G. Martin & Son, Norfolk, Va., for plaintiff.

Leigh D. Williams, W. R. C. Cocke, Williams, Cocke & Tunstall, Norfolk, Va., for defendants.


BRYAN, District Judge.

The question is whether the plaintiff, after having duly non-suited himself in a State court of Virginia, may bring the same cause of action before this Court, on diversity of citizenship jurisdiction, in the face of Virginia's statute: "When non-suit not allowed; no new proceeding after non-suit.—A party shall not be allowed to suffer a non-suit unless he do so before the jury retire from the bar. And after a non-suit no new proceeding...

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