Jager

Respondent was injured while employed by appellant in working upon and about a machine engaged in driving piles. He recovered a judgment for such injuries, and this appeal is taken from that judgment and from the order denying the motion for a new trial.

*544 In due time appellant moved for a change of venue of the action from the city and county of San Francisco to the county of Alameda, upon the ground that appellant’s principal place of business was in Alameda county, and alleging that such fact was so declared in its articles of incorporation. This motion was denied, and complaint is now made of the action of the court. Appellant was not entitled to a change of place of trial upon the ground presented, for a corporation may be sued and trial had in the county where the injuries are received. It has no absolute right to have the action tried in the county where its principal place of business is located. (Trezevant v. Strong Co., 102 Cal. 47 .)

It is insisted that a special demurrer to the complaint upon the ground of uncertainty was well taken. The complaint alleged “ that the defendant so carelessly and negligently constructed said piledriver, and so carelessly and…