Godfrey v. Tidewater Power Co.

Is the city of New Bern, a municipal corporation, located in Craven County, where the plaintiff’s alleged cause of action arose, entitled as a matter of right to have the action removed from Mecklenburg County, where plaintiff resides, to Craven County for trial, when the plaintiff makes no allegation and seeks no relief against the city, and it is brought into the action as a party defendant on motion and cross action of an original defendant, Tidewater Power Company, for contribution as a joint tort-feasor in the event it, the Power Company, be held liable to plaintiff? The court below did…