Case ID: cal-unrep_3/html/0075-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "THORNTON, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

POWELL v. SUTRO.
    
    No. 11,728;
    April 20,1889.
    21 Pac. 436.
    Change of Venue—Case Transferred, from Justice’s to Superior Court.—Where the defendant in an action commenced in a justice’s court asks to have the cause transferred to the superior court of the county where he is sued, for the reason that the cause involves the legality of a tax, there is no authority, upon the transfer being made, to transfer the cause to another county for trial.
    
      APPEAL from Superior Court, Alameda County; W. E. Greene, Judge.
    Edmund Tausky for appellant; Moore & Reed for respondent.
    
      
      For subsequent opinion in bank, see 80 Cal. 559, 22 Pac. 308.
    
   THORNTON, J.

This action was commenced in a justice’s court in the county of Alameda. The defendant set up in his answer facts going to show that the determination of the cause would necessarily involve the legality of a tax, and therefore, on his motion, the cause was transferred to the superior court of the county of Alameda for trial. The defendant then claimed in that court that he was, and had been for many years, a resident of the city and county of San Francisco, and demanded that the place of trial be changed to the superior court of the city and county above mentioned. This demand was denied, and thereupon he prosecuted an appeal to this court. We find no power vested in the superior court to change the place of trial in this case. The defendant, having been sued in a justice’s court, asks that the cause be transferred to the superior court of the county where he is sued, for the reason mentioned above, and his request is granted. When the cause gets to such superior court the defendant must try his cause in that court. The law makes no provision for its removal to any other court. Order affirmed.

We concur: McFarland, J.; Sharpstein, J.