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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

*Jacob Kerr againd The President and Directors of the State Bank of New-Brunswick.
    MOTION TO CHANGE THE VENUE.
    SCOTT, for the defendant, presented an affidavit, which stated that the cause of action, as alleged by the plaintiff, arose from transactions at the bank in New-Brunswick, in the county of Middlesex: that all the accounts between them were kept in the books of the bank, which were large, numerous, and contained the accounts of all other individuals who had transactions with the bank ; were highly valuable to the bank and to them ; and were every night deposited in the vault for safe keeping: that the witnesses were the officers of the bank, residing in New-Brunswick, near to the court-house in Middlesex ; and that neither the officers nor the books could be spared to attend court in Sussex, without great inconvenience and injury to the defendant, and those who had dealings with them.
    Change of VLnue. 
    
    
      
      
        Abrams vs. Rolfe, ante 30. Hall ads. Cumberland Bk., 2 South, 718. Meldrum vs. Sarvis, Coxe 203. Wildes vs. Mairs, 1 Hal. 320. Dauchy vs. Taylor, 4 Hal. 96. Worley vs. Scudder, 5 Hal. 231. Bell vs. Morris Canal, 3 Gr. 63. Murrray vs. N. J. R. R., 3 Zab. 68. Thorn vs. Central R. R., 2 Dutch. 121. Parker vs. Sussex Bank, 3 Hal. 160. Kerr vs. Whitaker, Pen. *514. Wistar vs. Johnson, Coxe 260. Ward vs. Holmes, 2 Hal. 171. Duyckinck vs. Clinton Ins. Co. 3 Zab. 279. State Bank vs. Hedenburg, 1 Har. 352.
      
    
   Upon this affidavit, the court directed the venue to be changed from Sussex to Middlesex.