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Continental Securities Co. v. Belmont

147 A.D. 914 Court N.Y. App. Div. English

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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.

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.