Samuels v. Ramada, Inc.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Lewis R. Friedman, J.), entered June 25, 1992, which granted defendants’ motion for a change of venue to Monroe County, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff alleges that while he was attending a party at defendants’ hotel in Rochester, New York, an altercation developed inside the hotel and moved to the parking lot where plaintiff was stabbed several times. Venue was initially placed in New York County. Appellants moved with due diligence to change venue. In the circumstances, it was clearly a proper exercise of discretion to change venue to…