Craig v. Cummings

Connolly, Thomas E., J.

This case comes on before the Court on the Defendant’s Motion for Reconsideration on the Defendant’s original motion to transfer venue from Suffolk Superior Court to Plymouth Superior court at Brockton.

While the issue of venue was a very important matter in the “horse and buggy days,” it has lost a lot of its importance since the invention of the automobile. These days, it appears that a party resorts to a challenge to the plaintiffs choice of venue based on which county’s potential jury make-up may be most favorable to his client’s case.

The defendant brings this motion…