Case ID: ri_19/html/0290-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

WASHINGTON COUNTY.
    Sarah F. Maine vs. Mrs. John W. Gardner.
    Under the Judiciary Act, cap. 13, § 2, which provided that all transitory actions should be brought either in the county where the plaintiff or defendant or some one of the parties plaintiff or defendant dwelt, where a county contained more than one judicial district a transitory action cognizable in a District Court could be brought in either district if any of the parties to the action dwelt within the county.
    
      Query, whether § 45 of the amendments to the Judiciary Act has effected any change in the law in this respect.
    Plaintiff’s petition for a new trial.
    
      Frederick C. Olney, for plaintiff.
    
      Nathan B, Lewis, for defendant.
    
      November 22, 1895.
   Per Curiam.

We are of the opinion that the Common Pleas Division erred in its ruling dismissing the action. The statute in force at the date of the bringing of the suit (Judiciary Act, cap. 13, § 2,) provided that all transitory actions and suits should he brought either in the county where the plaintiff or defendant, or some one of the parties plaintiff or defendant, should dwell. It was therefore not necessary that either of the parties plaintiff or defendant should have dwelt in the Third Judicial District to entitle the plaintiff to bring her action in that district. All that the statute required was that either the plaintiff or defendant should dwell in the county in which the action was brought. The writ shows that the defendant dwelt in North Kingstown, in the county of Washington, in which the Third Judicial District is included.

It is doubtful whether any change of the law in this respect has been effected by § 45 of the amendments to the Judiciary Act.

Plaintiff’s petition for a new trial granted, and case remitted to the Common Pleas Division for further proceedings, •