Johnson v. Benton

An action to recover the sum of five thousand dollars alleged to be due upon an assigned claim for attorney’s fees. All defendants, excepting Robert Johnston, joined in a motion for change of place of trial from the city and county o| San Francisco to the county of Shasta, upon the ground that they were residents of the latter county and that the remaining defendant Robert Johnston had been improperly joined as a defendant solely for the purpose of having the action tried in the jurisdiction wherein Johnston resided. In this connection it is averred by the moving defendants that no cause of…