Czarnowsky v. City of Rochester
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The City of Rochester, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Monroe Special Term and .entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Livingston on the :27th day of June, 1900, denying the defendant’s motion to change the place of trial from the county of Livingston to the county of Monroe.
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Appeal by the defendant, The City of Rochester, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Monroe Special Term and .entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Livingston on the :27th day of June, 1900, denying the defendant’s motion to change the place of trial from the county of Livingston to the county of Monroe. The action was commenced on the 15th day of February, 1900, to recover possession of certain real property situate in the town of Lima, county of Livingston, IST. Y., and twenty-five dollars for withholding the same, it being alleged that the plaintiff is the owner of…
1Opinion of the Court
McLennan, J.:
The city of Rochester has a population, according to the last State enumeration, of more than 50,000, and less than 250,000, and is, therefore, a city of the second class. (Const. N. Y. art, 12, § 2.)
The city of Rochester is situated in the county of Monroe.
Chapter 182, section 461, of the Laws of 1898, as amended by chapter 581, section 37, of the Laws of 1899, and which relates to the government of cities of the second class, provides as follows: ‘The place of trial of all actions, or proceedings against the city, or any. of its officers, boards or departments, shall be the…
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