Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-08-22 17:26:36.904497+00
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*208GRONER, C. J.
(dissenting).
I think the judgment below should be reversed and the action dismissed for improper venue. The suit is based on diversity of citizenship and was not brought in the district of the residence of either the plaintiff or the defendant,1 and nothing in the nature of a waiver is shown, as in the case of Nierbo Co. v. Bethlehem Corp., 1939, 308 U.S. 165, 60 S.Ct. 153, 84 L.Ed. 167, 128 A.L.R. 1437.2 The cause of action arose on a military reservation belonging to the United States and over which the United States had and exercised “entire jurisdiction,” and which by the act of cession Virginia had put beyond the field of the operation of her law.3
In this state of the case, to hold that the reservation by Virginia of the right of the officers of the state to execute “any process” or discharge “any legal functions”4 nullified the positive jurisdictional limitation of the federal statute would subject the federal procedure to the requirements of state law, — which T think may not be done.

 Judicial Code, Section 51, 36 Stat. 1101, Act March 3, 1911, 28 U.S.C. § 112.

 And see also the three following cases in line with the Nierbo ease: Moss v. Atlantic Coast Line R. R., 2 Cir„ 1945, 149 F.2d 701; Robinson v. Coos Corp., 3 Cir., 1945, 147 F.2d 512; Cummer-Graham Co. v. Basket Corp., 9 Cir., 1943, 136 F.2d 828.

 See—Pacific Coast Dairy v. Department of Agriculture of California, 1943, 318 U.S. 285, 294, 63 S.Ct. 628, 87 L.Ed. 761; Stewart & Co. v. Sadrakula, 1940, 309 U.S. 94, 100, 60 S.Ct. 431, 84 L.Ed. 596, 127 A.L.R. 821; Collins v. Yosemite Park Co., 1938, 304 U. S. 518, 533, 58 S.Ct. 1009, 82 L.Ed. 1502; Murray v. Gerrick, 1934, 291 U.S. 315, 318, 54 S.Ct. 75, 78 L.Ed. 537; Standard Oil Co. v. California, 1934, 291 U.S. 242, 54 S.Ct. 526, 78 L.Ed. 775; United States v. Unzeuta, 1930, 281 U.S. 138, 50 S. Ct. 284, 74 L.Ed. 761; Arlington Hotel Co. v. Fant, 1929, 278 U.S. 439, 49 S.Ct. 227, 73 L.Ed. 447.

 Va.Laws (1820-21) c. 73, pp. 102-3.