Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Nickerson
District Court, D. New Hampshire
Decided March 15, 1962No. Civ. A. No. 2243PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
CONNOR, District Judge.
This is a motion for transfer brought by the plaintiff under the provisions of 28 U.S.C.A. § 1404(a) which are as follows:
“For the convenience of parties and witnesses, in the interest of justice, a district court may transfer any civil action to any other district or division where it might have been brought.”
Defendant resists the motion primarily on the basis that the proposed transferee district, the Eastern District of South Carolina, is not one of those districts “where it [the action] might have been brought.”
The initial question then is whether or not this court…
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