125 N.Y.S. 614 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1910
This action is brought to recover damages for personal injuries resulting from negligence. Such an action must. be tried in the county in which one of the parties resided at the commencement thereof. (Code Civ. Proc. § 984.) Residence, as the word is used in other sections of the Code (excluding those relating to attachments and service of process) and in other statutes (excluding those relating to taxation), is. generally synonymous with domicile. The same meaning should be given to it here. It means the permanent home and the place to which, whenever absent for purposes of business or pleasure, one intends to return, (de Meli v. de Meli, 120 N. Y. 485, 491; Washington v. Thomas, 103 App. Div. 423.) It must be admitted that some of the earlier cases gave a different construction to; the word “ resided,” as used in the section above referred to. (Cincinnati H. & D. R. Co. v. Ives, 3 N. Y. Supp. 895; Bischoff v. Bischoff, 88 App. Div. 126.) The former case was decided by -the Special Term of the Supreme Court in Hew York county in 1889, but: as the Appellate Division in the First Department, in the case of Washington v. Thomas (supra), declined to follow it, we need no longer consider it as an authority. In the Bischoff case, the language of the opinion, so far as it attempts to distinguish residence from domicile, as applied to the section of the Code in question, was unnecessary to the determination of the case, since it clearly appeared from the facts therein that plaintiff’s domicile and place of sojourn were both in the county in which the action was brought. Defendant in this action, at the time of the commencement thereof and for a long time prior thereto, resided in Kings county. Unless plaintiff actually resided in Westchester county,- within the meaning of the statute, defendant’s motion to change the place of trial should have been granted. Plaintiff is a young man and unmarried. His parents reside at Belmar, H. J. It is undisputed that he actually resided and sojourned with them
The order appended from should be reversed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and the motion to change the place of trial granted, with/ ten dollars costs. ''
Woodward, Thomas, Rich and Carr, J.T., concurred.
Ordtir reversed, with' ten dollars costs and disbursements, and. motion to change the place of trial granted, with ten dollars costs.