State ex rel. Keyes v. Superior Court

Citations

• 103 Wash. 402
• 174 P. 646
• 1918 Wash. LEXIS 1251

Syllabus

<p>Venue — Residence of Defendant — Right to Change — Codefendants. Where a change of venue to the county of the defendant’s residence, upon a showing that codefendants were joined merely for the purpose of retaining venue, was denied with leave to renew-the motion if at the trial no relief is claimed against the other defendants, defendant is entitled to the change of venue, after appeal and remand, where the codefendants had absconded or were insolvent and had been eliminated hy the judgment without the trial of any real issue, leaving the real controversy to he tried out against him as sole defendant.</p>