Williams v. Keller
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the First Judicial District, Storey County. The action was by Thomas H. Williams and David Bixler, attorneys at law in Virginia City, to recover one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars in legal tender notes for legal services, being ten per cent, agreed to be paid on moneys received by defendant on certain indebtedness held by him against Virginia City. I. Defendant had a right to have the action tried in the county of his residence.
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Appeal from the District Court of the First Judicial District, Storey County. The action was by Thomas H. Williams and David Bixler, attorneys at law in Virginia City, to recover one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars in legal tender notes for legal services, being ten per cent, agreed to be paid on moneys received by defendant on certain indebtedness held by him against Virginia City. I. Defendant had a right to have the action tried in the county of his residence. Upon the application made, the Court ought not to have considered any matter or thing other than the question of residence,…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
WhitmaN, J.:
On the ninth of September, 1870, respondents filed their complaint against appellant in the First District Court, Storey County. On the thirteenth of the same month, he was duly served in the action in the County of White Pine, in the Eighth Judicial District. On the twenty-second day of the month aforesaid, appellant, by his attorneys, made demand that the place of trial of the cause be changed to White Pine County, his residence, and notified respondents that he would on the twenty-eighth of the said month move therefor in open Court, upon his affidavit of the fact…
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