Case Name: Continental Securities Company and Clarence H. Venner, Stockholders in the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, etc., Appellants, v. August Belmont and Others, Respondents, Impleaded with the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Defendant
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1911-11
Citations: 147 A.D. 914
Docket Number: 
Parties: Continental Securities Company and Clarence H. Venner, Stockholders in the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, etc., Appellants, v. August Belmont and Others, Respondents, Impleaded with the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Defendant.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 147
Pages: 914–914

Head Matter:
Continental Securities Company and Clarence H. Venner, Stockholders in the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, etc., Appellants, v. August Belmont and Others, Respondents, Impleaded with the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, Defendant.

Opinion:
Order changing place of trial reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion denied, with .ten dollars costs, on the ground that it is the settled policy of this department not to change the place of trial to New York county from an adjacent county for the mere convenience of witnesses. Jenks, P. J., Hirschberg, Burr and Carr, JJ., concurred; Thomas, J., dissented.