Case ID: wend_9/html/0472-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Savage, Ch. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Brice vs. Vanderheyden & Coon.
    ALBANY,
    Feb. 1833.
    
      Trover for personal property is a local action; trespass for an injury to per. sonal property is transitory.
    
    The plaintiff moved to amend his declaration by changing the venue, the action being trover for the taking property, and he having by mistake laid the venue in a county where the cause of action did not arise.
   By the Court,

Savage, Ch. J.

The statute on this subject is somewhat obscure. It enacts that issues of fact shall be tried in the proper county, as follows: 1. Actions for the recovery of real estate, &c. shall be tried in the county where the subject of the action shall be situated. 2. Actions of trespass for injuries to the person, and actions on the case for injuries to the person or personal property shall be tried in the county where the cause of action arose. 2 R. S. 409, § 2. Trover is an action on the case, and the venue in it therefore must be laid in the county where the cause of action arose. Trespass for an injury to personal property is transitory.

Motion granted.