Case Name: Nicholas Low v. Jacob W. Hallett
Court: New York Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1805-02
Citations: 1 Cole. & Cai. Cas. 417
Docket Number: 
Parties: Nicholas Low v. Jacob W. Hallett.
Judges: 
Reporter: Coleman & Caines' Cases
Volume: 1
Pages: 417–418

Head Matter:
Nicholas Low v. Jacob W. Hallett.
ON a motion to change the venue from New- York to Ontario, in an action for use and occupation, the defendant swore all his witnesses resided in the latter county, where the house was situated.
Hoffman
resisted it because the action was transitory, and on an affidavit by the plaintiff, stating his case to rest on written receipts, and an agreement executed in JVew-York.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Take the effect of your application. The papers may be more easily transferred to Ontario, than the witnesses carried to New- York. The plaintiff does not show he has a single witness where his venue is laid, and the action being founded in privity of contract, not of estate, is of course transitory.