Gaboury v. Flagler Hospital, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• finding venue of wrongful death suit proper in county where wrongful acts took place, although decedent was released and continued into another county where she died
• expressing primary purpose of venue statute is to require litigation be instituted in forum that causes least amount of inconvenience and expense for parties required to answer and defend an action
• expressing primary purpose of venue statute is to require liti gation be instituted in forum that causes least amount of inconvenience and expense for parties required to answer and defend an action
• a wrongful death claim accrues and venue is proper in the county where the negligent acts which led to the death occurred because the gravamen of the Florida wrongful death statute is the underlying wrongful act
• “The granting or refusal of the application for change of venue is within the sound discretion of the trial court and will not be disturbed upon review absent a demonstration of a palpable abuse or grossly improvident exercise of discretion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).