Ingal v. Stoddard

This is an appeal from an order denying a motion to change the place of trial, for the convenience of witnesses, from the county of New York to the county of Tompkins. We think the motion should have been granted. The' cause of action arose in Tompkins county, where the plaintiff’s assignor and all of defendant’s witnesses within this state reside. So far as appears from the papers used upon the motion, there is not a single witness that the plaintiff desires to call upon the trial residing in the county of New York. Indeed, it does not even appear that the plaintiff himself resides in that…