TRANSITORY ACTION. An action the cause of which might have arisen in one place or county as well as another.
In general, all personal actions, whether ex eontractu; 5 Taunt. 25; New York Corp. v. Dawson, 2 Johns. Cas. (N. Y.) 335; Hen wood v. Cheeseman, 3 S. & R. (Pa.) 500; or ex delta(); 1 Chitty, Pl. 243; for personal injuries; Gunther v. Dranbauer, 86 Md. 1, 38 Atl. 33 ; Myers v. R. Co., 69 Minn. 476, 72 N. W. 694, 65 Am. St. Rep. 579; for quarry ing stone on defendant's land in one state and removing it to another ; Phelps v. Church, 99 Fed. 683, 40 C. C. A. 72; to re cover damages for a tort; Denuick v. R. Co., 103 U. S. 11, 26 L. Ed. 439 ; Stewart v. It. Co., 168 U. S. 445, 18 Sup. Ct. 105, 42 L. Ed. 537; are transitory, and may be maintained in a state other than the one in which the in juries were inflicted, where the cause of ac tion is grounded on the principles of the com mon law, recognized in both states ; Eingart ner v. Steel Co., 94 Wis. 70, 68 N. W. 664, 34 L. R. A. 503, 59 Am. St. Rep. 859. Such an action may at common law be brought in any county which the plaintiff elects.
Quo warrant° proceedings against a cor poration must be brought in the county where its office is; State v. Hancock, 2 Pennewill, 231, 45 Atl. 850 ; so of an action
to recover a statutory penalty for refusal to obey an order of the railroad commission; Central of Georgia R. Co. v. State, 104 831, 31 S. E. 531, 42 L. R. A. 518, an action to enjoin railroad commissioners should be brought in a county where one or more of them reside; Railroad Commission of Geor gia v. Hardware Co., 124 Ga. 633, 53 S. E. 193 ; an action on the case for rescue is lo cal ; Poor v. Doble, Quincy (Mass.) 86. Or dinarily actions relating to land are local; Grace v. Cox, 16 Ind. App. 150, 44 N. E. 813; so of trespass for damages to land ; Du Breuil v. Pennsylvania Co., 130 Ind. 137, 29 N. E. 909; and of an action for damages to a mill privilege caused by a dam in another county; Thompson v. Crocker, 9 Pick. (Mass.) 59 ; and of an action to establish a trust and obtain partition ; Hanna v. Clark, 189 Pa. 321, 41 Atl. 981; but not a petition for the appointment of a trustee of land; Cone v. Cone, 61 S. C. 512, 39 S. E. 748.
An exception to the venue must be taken in abatement ; Davis v. Marston, 5 Mass. 199; a plea to the merits is not a waiver; Robinson v. Mead, 7 Mass. 353.
See JURISDICTION; LOCAL ACTION; TORT.