Rae v. Advance Publications, Inc.

On April 20, 1969, the defendant, Advance Publishers, Inc., published an article in its newspaper, the Staten Island Sunday Advance, which the plaintiff, Joseph Rae, claims libelled him. Mr. Rae, a Nassau County resident, brought suit for libel in the Nassau County Supreme Court.

Defendants now move to change the place of trial from Nassau County to Richmond County. The moving affirmation urges as the grounds for changing the place of trial that the Staten Island Sunday Advance is published and circulated in Richmond County, and that the convenience of material witnesses and the ends of…