Case ID: how-pr_2/html/0181-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Jewett, Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Jesse Van Auken et al. agt. James Stewart.
    An affidavit, for the purpose of moving to change the venue, should state the towns as well as the county in which the witnesses reside. (1 Sow. 196; 2 Sow. 89.)
    
      June Term, 1846.
    Motion by defendant to change the venue from New-York to Delaware.
    The affidavit upon which this motion was founded did not state the towns in which the witnesses resided; it stated only that they resided in the county of Delaware.
    Plaintiffs’ counsel objected to the sufficiency of the affidavit, and cited 1 How. 195; 2 How. 89.
    A. Taber, defendants counsel.
    
    Johnson & Andrews, defendant's attorneys.
    
    Gr. ft. J. Bowdoin, plaintiffs' counsel.
    
    E. Ten Broeck, plaintiffs' attorney.
    
   Jewett, Justice.

Sustained the objection, and denied the motion with $7 costs.