First-Trust Joint Stock Land Bank v. Meredith

This is an appeal by defendant from an order denying a change of place of trial from the county of Los Angeles to that of Tulare. Plaintiff brought this suit in the county of Los Angeles to collect moneys claimed to be due under the provisions of a promissory note secured by a mortgage on land in Iowa executed by defendant as well as her husband and Harlan Meredith. At the time the action was commenced the husband was dead and Harlan Meredith was a resident of Iowa and his wife was made the sole defendant.

Defendant in her amended answer, among other things, set up the defense that there was…