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§ 20-2-208. Actions against steamboat owners.

TN Code § 20-2-208 (2019) (N/A)
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(a) All persons, resident and nonresident of this state, running and operating steamboats in any of the rivers in or bordering on this state as common carriers, may be sued in law or equity in any county where the boat or boats of such person lands, for any cause of action or suit growing out of or connected with the business carried on or done by or in connection with the running and use of the boat or boats.

(b) Service of process on any captain or clerk of any boat of such person, whether it is the particular boat complained of or immediately connected with the transaction out of which the cause of suit or action originates or not, shall be sufficient to bring such person into court.

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§ 20-2-208. Actions against steamboat owners.