Van Etten v. Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.

Appeal by plaintiffs from an order of the Supreme Court, entered in St. Lawrence County on March 12, 1955, granting defendant’s motion to change the place of trial from St. Lawrence County to Jefferson County on the grounds that the convenience of witnesses and the ends of justice would be promoted by such change. The actions are in negligence and arise out of an automobile accident which occurred in Jefferson County. Defendant’s moving papers set forth the names of five witnesses residing in Jefferson County, and adequately, though generally, indicate the materiality of their testimony.…