De Grasse Paper Co. v. Northern New York Coal Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Northern New York Coal Company, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Onondaga Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Jefferson on the 22d day of December, 1920, granting plaintiff’s motion for an order to change the place of trial from the county of Jefferson to the county of Onondaga.
1Opinion of the Court
Clark, J.:
This action was commenced in May, 1917, the venue being laid in St. Lawrence county. Both parties are corporations. The president of the defendant corporation is Mr. Robert J. Buck, a resident of the city of Watertown, Jefferson county.
The cause was placed on the calendar for the St. Lawrence Trial Term appointed to be held in January, 1918. Plaintiff’s attorneys were not ready for trial at that time, and applied to counsel for the defendant to have the case pass that term. There was another case pending between the same parties wherein this defendant was plaintiff and this…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Noonan v. LutherAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1908
- Barnes v. RooseveltAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1914
- DeGrasse Paper Co. v. Northern New York Coal Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1919
- De Grasse Paper Co. v. Northern New York Coal Co.New York Supreme Court · 1920