Trezevant

This is an appeal by the defendant from an order denying its motion for a change of venue from *48 the county of Fresno to the county of Sacramento. The defendant is a corporation, and its principal place of business is in the county of Sacramento. The action is one to recover the value of merchandise alleged to have been sold and delivered to the defendant by the plaintiff, and it was admitted, upon the hearing of the motion in the superior court, that the liability of defendant accrued in the county of Fresno, where the action was commenced. The motion of the defendant for a change of the place of trial to the county of Sacramento is based solely upon the ground that its residence is in that county, within the meaning of section 395 of the Code of Civil Procedure, and that under that section it is entitled to have the action tried in the county of its residence.

It must be conceded that the defendant, being a corporation, its place of residence is in the county of Sacramento, where it has its principal place of business. (Jenkins v. California Stage Co., 22 Cal. 537 ; Cohn v. Central Pac. R. R. Co., 71 Cal. 488 ; Buck v. City of Eureka, 97 Cal. 135 .) It will thus be seen that…