Case ID: minn_155/html/0505-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE EX REL. W. L. PERKINS v. DISTRICT COURT OF STEELE COUNTY AND OTHERS.
    
    April 20, 1923.
    No. 23,538.
    Change of venue — conflicting affidavits — review of issue of fact.
    Decision of issue of fact by trial court on conflicting affidavits will not be reversed by supreme court. [Reporter.]
    Upon the application of W. L. Perkins, the supreme court granted its alternative writ of mandamus directed to the district court for Steele county, Honorable Fred W. Senn, judge thereof, and the clerk of said court, directing them to remand the case pf W. L. Perkins, plaintiff, against The Clifton Company, defendant, and transmit the files and records therein to the clerk of the district court for Ramsey county.
    Order affirmed.
    O’Brien, Stone, Horn <£ Stringer, for relator.
    
      Sazvycr <& Gausezvits, for respondents.
    
      
       Reported in 193 N. W. 169.
    
   PER CURIAM.

Action was brought in Ramsey county against defendant, a corporation having its principal place of business in Steele county. On affidavit stating that defendant was a resident of Steele county, the venue was changed to that county. Application was made in Steele county to remand the case to Ramsey county for trial. The trial court denied the application. Plaintiff brings mandamus to compel a remand. The right to a writ of mandamus depends on the question whether defendant had “an office, resident agent or business place” in Ramsey county within the meaning of section 7721, G. S. 1913.-• In our opinion this was, on the showing made, a question of fact. The trial court decided this question of fact adversely to plaintiff. There is conflict in the affidavits and the decision of the trial court must be sustained.

Order affirmed.