13 Utah 117 | Utah | 1896
This action was brought in the First district court at Provo, to recover damages for personal injuries alleged to have been received by the plaintiff while working in defendant’s mine at Eureka, Juab county, Utah. At the time of the commencement of this action, Juab county, was within the limits of the First judicial district court at Provo. At the time when the injuries were alleged to have been received, and when the action was brought, defendant was a corporation, organized in Utah, and having its principal office and business in Salt Lake City and county, in the Third judicial district; and in its articles of'
Section 3196, Comp. Laws Utah 1888, provides that this class of actions must be tried in the judicial district in
The counter affidavit filed by the plaintiff is defective in not stating the names or residences of the plaintiff’s witnesses, and in not showing merits. It does not appear, from the affidavit, that the plaintiff bad fully and fairly stated all the facts in the case to bis counsel, or that be was advised by bis counsel, after sucb statements so made as aforesaid, that be bad a good and meritorious cause of action on the merits, and that be believes sucb advice true. Nor does it appear bow or in what manner bis witnesses would be inconvenienced by a change in the place of trial. Loehr v. Latham, 15 Cal. 418.
The judgment and order of the First district court, in refusing to grant the defendant a change in the place of trial as requested, is set aside and reversed, and the case is remanded.