¶1The complaint alleges that the defendant as sheriff of Rings county neglected for a period of more than nine months to seize certain chattels located in Rings county as commanded by a warrant of seizure, granted by the county judge of Onondaga county, and that said sheriff failed to make a return to the county of Onondaga.
¶2The motion to change the place of trial from Onondaga county to Rings county must be granted.
¶3The alleged failure to seize the chattels constitutes a cause of action arising in Kings county, which, therefore, must be tried in that county. Code Civ. Pro., § 983.
¶4The inventory must be filed in the county where the property is attached (Id., § 654), that is, in Kings county. The complaint does not allege that this has not been done.
¶5The objection to the affidavit of merits is not forceful. Change of place of trial to the county where the statute requires it to be tried, may be asked as a matter of right, and an affidavit of merits is unnecessary. Iron National Bank v. Dolge, 46 App. Div. 327.
¶6Motion granted, with costs.