Legal Opinion

Fein v. Public Service Coordinated Transport

District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania

Decided July 31, 1958No. Civ. A. No. 23658PublishedCited by 11 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

KIRKPATRICK, District Judge.

The defendant in a personal injury action has moved, under 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a), to transfer the case to the District of New Jersey. The only reason alleged for the transfer is to enable the defendant to join as third party defendant a person who can be reached by process in New Jersey but not in Pennsylvania. I think it is a sufficient reason.

The plaintiff has cited a number of cases in which somewhat similar applications for transfer were denied. In each of them, although the matter of bringing in a third party defendant was one of the factors, the question of the…

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