Becker v. Town of Cherry Creek

The action was brought to recover the amount due upon 131 town bonds of the defendant, alleged to have been duly issued pursuant to the statute in aid of the Buffalo & Jamestown Railroad Company in the year 1874. The defendant, by its answer, puts in issue the allegations of the complaint in support of the validity of the bonds and of the right of the plaintiff to recover upon them. The motion to change the place of trial from Erie to Chautauqua county was founded upon the contention on the part of the defendant that it was a local action, within the provisions of section 982 of the Code of…