Brown v. Woodring

JOHN W. MURPHY, Chief Judge.

Defendant moves to transfer this diversity — wrongful death — action to the Eastern District of North Carolina, pursuant to 28 U.S.C.A. § 1404(a).

§ 1404(a) provides: “For the convenience of parties and witnesses, in the interest of justice, a district court may transfer any civil action to any other district or division where it might have been brought.” The present action could have been brought — 28 U.S.C.A. § 1391(a) — and service obtained in the state or federal courts of North Carolina, see Leppard v. Jordan’s Truck Line, D.C. E.D.S.C.1953, 110 F.Supp. 811,…