Palmer v. Chrysler Leasing Corp.

— Reynolds, J.

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Sullivan County, providing for the joint trial in Sullivan County of four separate actions arising out of a two-car auto accident on Route 17B, Town of Thompson, Sullivan County, denying appellants’ cross motion for joint trial of the actions in New York County and deferring to the trial court the question of the right to open and close. Venue motions are directed to the judicial discretion of the trial court (Yeomans v. Malen, 20 A D 2d 615; Edwards v. Lewin, 284 App. Div. 28) and thus unless such discretion was not soundly exercised…