Moodie v. Kehoe

Order, Supreme Court, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Fernando Tapia, J.), entered January 12, 2017, which granted defendant’s motion to change venue, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the motion denied.

The motion for a change of venue should have been denied because defendant did not meet her initial burden “of disproving plaintiff’s Bronx County residence” (Fiallos v New York Univ. Hosp., 85 AD3d 678, 678 [1st Dept 2011]). In her personally verified complaint, plaintiff alleges that she is a resident of Bronx County, and the summons specifies her address on Baychester Avenue…