Russell v. Marenakos Logging Co.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that discretionary venue decisions are reviewed for abuse of discretion
• “except in rare instances, the mills of justice grind with equal fineness in every county of the state” (footnote omitted)
• plaintiffs should not be allowed to select forums indiscriminately
• “[T]he legislature not only did a useless but a silly thing, if it gave a plaintiff an option to sue in the county where the cause of action arose or in the county where some one of the defendants resides, if it must in any event be tried in the former.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).