Cole v. Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corp.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation, Limited, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Tioga Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Chemung on the 2d day of April,-1917, denying its motion to change the place of trial from Chemung county to Dutchess county.'
1Opinion of the Court
Cochrane, J.:
On the night of December 19, 1915, William Weedon Cole, the husband of the plaintiff, occupied room No. 52 in the Nelson House in the city of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess county, N. Y. About five o’clock on the following morning his dead body was found in the bathroom connecting with room 52. The latter room was dark and the door opening into the bathroom was closed but the electric light was burning in the bathroom. The bed had not been occupied. Illuminating gas was escaping with full force from a gas fixture attached to the wall of the bathroom. The key of the fixture was close…
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