Pacific Coast Automobile Assn. v. Ahlf

Appeal from an order refusing to change place of trial.

The action was commenced in the city and county of San . Francisco. Thereafter application for change of venue was made on the ground that none of the proper defendants in the action were residents of such city and county; that plaintiff had no actual cause of action against certain parties nominally named defendants and such defendants were joined for the fraudulent purpose of depriving the real defendants of their right to have said action tried in the place of their residence.

The action was one for libel based upon three different…