Behrman v. Pioneer Pearl Button Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Pioneer Pearl Button Company, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 18th day of November, 1919, denying defendant’s motion to change the place of trial to Dutchess county, and granting plaintiff’s motion to retain the case in the county of New York on the ground of the convenience of witnesses.
1Opinion of the Court
Dowling, J.:
Plaintiff has brought this action to recover commissions and bonus alleged to be due him under contracts whereby defendant employed him as a salesman. In the summons New York county was designated as the place of trial. Defendant thereupon served a demand that the place of trial be changed to Dutchess county upon two grounds: 1. That the county of New York, designated in the complaint as the place for the *844trial of this action, is not the proper county, and that the proper county is the county of Dutchess. 2. That the convenience of witnesses and the ends of justice will be…
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