207 A.D. 519 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1924
The plaintiff is the Superintendent of Insurance of the State of New York, suing in his official capacity as liquidator of the Standard Automobile Casualty Company, an insolvent insurance company in process of liquidation. The defendant is a policyholder and member of the insurance company. The action is brought to recover an assessment of $106.04 levied by the corporation upon the defendant policyholder. The venue is laid in Albany county. The defendant resides in Kings county. He moves to change the place of trial from Albany county to Kings county on the ground that (1) the latter is the proper county, and (2) that the convenience of witnesses will best be served by the change. It is unnecessary to consider the second ground urged. The defendant has no witnesses to summon and no proof to offer. The sole question involved, therefore, is whether Albany county is, within the meaning of section 182 of the Civil Practice Act, the residence of the plaintiff, and, therefore, the proper county.
The residence of a party, within the meaning of section 182 of the Civil Practice Act, requiring an action to be tried in a county wherein one of the parties resides, is not necessarily the permanent home or domicile of a party. In the strict sense, a corporation
The order should be reversed, with costs, and the motion denied, with costs.
All concur.
Order reversed on the law, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and motion denied, with ten dollars costs.