Moore v. Gardner

Gridley, Justice.

The word “venue” is defined to mean “a neighboring place.” “The place from whence a jury are to come for the trial of causes” (Jacobs’s Law Dictionary vol. 6 p. 354). The word was used as synonymous with the place of trial, by all *244legal writers both in England and in this state, up to 1847. It is true that when the venue was local, the court would sometimes grant an order for a trial in another county, for the reason that an impartial trial could not be had in the county where the venue properly belonged. But generally, a motion to change the venue, in transitory actions, is…