Watkins v Hybert

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date01 January 1790
Date01 January 1790
CourtCourt of the King's Bench

English Reports Citation: 96 E.R. 799

COURT OF KING'S BENCH

Watkins
and
ers. Hybert

W atkins vers. hybert. The changing of the venue from an English to a Welch county refused. A motion was made to change the venue, in an action of assault and battery, from the county of Middlesex to the county of Brecknock. The Court refused to make a rule to shew cause. And by Lee Ch.J.-It has been said; that rule, for changing the venue from an English to a Welch county, was made in the case of Price v. Griffith, Trin. 21 & 22 G. 2, and that another rule of the same kind was made in the case of Smith v. Jones, East, 23 G. 2. But if such a rule has ever been made, it must have been by surprize. Mr. Ford, as amicus Curias, mentioned the case of Moor v. Fernihaugh, Trin. 19 G. 2, in which this Court...

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