Case ID: how-pr_2/html/0088-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bronson, Chief Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Charles Cook agt. John Finch.
    In an affidavit for a motion to change the venue, the tom as well as the county in which the witnesses reside must.he stated. (1 Hovmrd's Practice Re* ports, 195.)
    
      February Term, 1846.
    Motion by defendant to change venue.'
    
      It was objected by plaintiff’s counsel that the defendant’s affidavit did not state the town where the witnesses resided.
    H. Welles, defendants counsel.
    
    E. Van Burén, defendants attorney.
    
    J. A. Spencer, plaintiff's counsel.
    
    L. N. B. Vanderlip, plaintiff's attorney.
    
   Bronson, Chief Justice.

The affidavit is defective in not stating the town as well as the county in which the witnesses reside.

Motion denied with costs, without prejudice.