Marsoff v. Fast
This text of 151 N.Y.S. 418 (Marsoff v. Fast) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering New York Supreme Court primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
Under the well-settled rule that transitory actions should be tried in the county where the transactions involved in the controversy took place, unless a large preponderance of the witnesses live in another county (Fluckiger v. Haber, 144 App. Div. 65, 128 N. Y. Supp. 739, and cases there cited), this motion to change the venue to Greene county should be granted. It was there that the accident occurred, and the plaintiff has failed to show that the majority of the witnesses live in or near Bronx county, in which she has brought her action. On the contrary, even assuming that the two witnesses whose residence is in dispute reside in New York City, still a greater number who have actual knowledge of the circumstances of the accident and-its effect on the plaintiff, and her statements as to such circumstances and effects, undisputedly reside in Greene county.
The motion is granted, with $10 costs. Settle order on notice.
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