Court Opinion

ID: 9630158
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 10:03:05.383479+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:07:32.690801
License: Public Domain

WORTHEN, Justice
(concurring and dissenting).
I agree that the action of the trial court denying the “Motion to Dismiss for Improper Venue” was proper.
I likewise agree- with the trial court in denying defendant’s motion for -rehearing.
I dissent from the suggestion that the trial judge has any discretion to “give proper consideration to the question of venue to the end that such matter be properly adjudicated prior to trial of the cause.”
Section 78-13-8'U.C.A.1953 provides that although the “county in which the action is commenced is not the proper county for the trial thereof, the action may nevertheless be tried therein, unless the defendant at the time he answers or otherwise appears files a motion, in writing, that the trial be had in the proper county.” (Emphasis ours.)
Defendant having failed to request a change of venue at the time he appeared, waived his right to have the case transferred.
If the trial court was right in denying the motion to dismiss and in its position that no proper motion for change of venue was made as required by our statute, I am of the opinion that the trial court has no discretion to further consider the question of venue.
Nor do I see that Rule .12(b) can afford any relief to defendant. The motion for *415change of venue not having been made at the time- defendant first appeared, any hiot tion or other pleading raising the issue made subsequent thereto is too late.