Case ID: ad_94/html/0211-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "O’Brien, J.:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Charles J. Ferrin, Jr., Respondent, v. Frederick B. Huxley, Appellant.
    
      Motion by a, defendant to change the venue of an action to the county of his residence — it should, not be changed to that of the plaintiff.
    
    On a motion by a defendant to change -to the county in which he resides the venue of an action which has been laid in a county in which neither of the parties thereto resides, it is improper for the court to make an order, against the objection of the defendant’s counsel, changing the place of trial to the-county of the plaintiff’s residence.
    
      Appeal by the defendant, Frederick B. Huxley, from an,order of the Supreme Court, made at the Hew York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Hew York on the 29th day of February, 1904, changing the place of trial of the action from the county of Hew York to the county of Westchester.
    
      Edwin D. Wébb, for the appellant.
    
      Ira B. Stewart, for the respondent.
   O’Brien, J.:

The venue was laid in New York county, and it is conceded that the plaintiff resides in the county of Westchester and the defendant in the county of Wayne. Upon the ground that the plaintiff had brought the action in the wrong county, the defendant moved to change the place of trial to Wayne county, and the court granted the motion, so far as to order a change of venue, but directed that the trial should be had in Westchester county.

The precise question upon this appeal was directly involved and passed upon in the case of Loretz v. Met. St. R. Co. (34 App. Div. 1), and it was therein decided, as correctly stated in the syllabus, that “ On a motion by a defendant to change to the county in which he resides the venue of an action which has been laid in a county in which neither of the, parties thereto resides, it is improper for the court to make an order, against the objection of the defendant’s counsel, changing the place of trial to the county of the plaintiff’s residence.”

Upon the reasoning and authority of that case the order appealed from must be reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and the motion to change the place of trial to Wayne county granted, with ten dollars costs.

Van Brunt, P. J., Ingraham, McLaughlin and Hatch, JJ., concurred.

Order reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion granted, with ten dollars costs.