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  "name": "WILLIAM LASSITER v. NORFOLK AND CAROLINA RAILROAD COMPANY",
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      "WILLIAM LASSITER v. NORFOLK AND CAROLINA RAILROAD COMPANY."
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        "text": "Clark, J.\nTbe Code, see. 195, provides that if an action is not brought \u201cin the proper county, the action may, notwithstanding, be tried therein unless the defendant, before the time of answering expires, demands in writing that the trial be had in the proper county.\u201d This gives the defendant a right to remove in such cases upon written motion in apt time (Manufacturing Co. v. Brower, 105 N. C., 440), otherwise the objection is waived. But the same section further on gives tire Court the discretion: \u201cIt may change the place of trial\u201d in three cases named in as many subsections, the second of which is \u201cWhen the. convenience of witnesses and the ends of justice would be promoted by the change.\u201d The Court in its discretion granted the removal upon that ground, in this case, and such action is not revieiwable. The discretion of the Court to remove is not restricted to the expiration of the time of answering, nor to cases in which the action is brought in the wrong county, as is the right of the defendant to remove.\nThe further objection that the cause was removed to a county in another judicial district is without ground in the statute, or decisions to support it. The appeal was not premature (Roberts v. Connor, 125 N. C., 45), but there was\nNo error.",
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    "attorneys": [
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    "head_matter": "WILLIAM LASSITER v. NORFOLK AND CAROLINA RAILROAD COMPANY.\n(Decided May 15, 1900.)\nRemoval of Game for Trial \u2014 Matter of Discretion, Code, Section 195.\n1. It is within the discretion of the Court to change the place of trial, when the convenience of witnesses and the ends of justice would he promoted by the change. Code, see. 195 (2.)\n2. Such discretion is not reviewable, and its exercise not restricted to the expiration of the time of answering, nor to cases in which the action is brought in the wrong county, nor must the removal be necessarily made to some county in the same judicial district.\nCivil ActioN for injury alleged to be occasioned by diverting water upon land of plaintiff, heard before Allen, J., at November Term, 1899, of Beetle Superior Court, upon motion and affidavit of defendant for the removal of the cause to some other county for trial, for the convenience of witnesses and to promote the ends of justice. Motion allowed. Plaintiff excepted and appealed.\nMr. Francis D. Winston, for appellant.\nMr. George Gowner, for appellee."
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