White v. Rio Grande Western Railway Co.
Utah Supreme Court
Appeal from the Third District Court, Salt Lake County.— Hon. O. W. Morse, Judge. Action to recover damages for tbe death of the plaintiffs’ son alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant. From a judgment dismissing the action for want of jurisdiction, the plaintiff appealed. STATEMENT OE EAOTS.
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Appeal from the Third District Court, Salt Lake County.— Hon. O. W. Morse, Judge. Action to recover damages for tbe death of the plaintiffs’ son alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant. From a judgment dismissing the action for want of jurisdiction, the plaintiff appealed. STATEMENT OE EAOTS. This is an action in which the plaintiffs sought to recover, under the provisions of chapter 6, Code Civil Procedure, damages arising from the death of their son, Thomas F. White, alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendant. It is stated in the second amended…
1Opinion of the CourtBaskin, C. J.
after.a statement of the case as above, delivered the opinion of the court.
It is provided in article 8, section 5, of the Constitution, that “all civil and criminal business arising in any county, must be tried in such county, unless a change of venue be taken, in such cases as may be provided by law.” The appellants claim that under this provision the proper venue in this case is Salt Lake county, and the respondent contends that it is in Carbon county. “Business” is “a word of large significartion, denoting the employment or. occupation in which a person is engaged to procure a living.…
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