Hall

The determination of this appeal depends upon the construction to be placed on the words “special contract” contained in section 395, Code of Civil Procedure.

The facts are not in dispute. The defendants reside in Kern County, California. They entered into a written conditional sales contract in Kern County with a firm known as State Center Knitting Company for the purchase by the defendants of a knitting machine. Thereafter, the contract was assigned by State Center Knitting Company to the plaintiff, Fidelity Thrift and Loan Association. The Fidelity Thrift and Loan Association has brought this suit against the defendants for the alleged unpaid balance due on said conditional sales contract. Attached to the complaint is a copy of *897 the contract. On the copy of the contract so attached to the complaint appears the following statement: “Purchaser agrees to pay said contract balance in successive monthly installments payable at Fidelity Thrift & Loan Association on the same day of each month ...”

In its complaint the plaintiff alleges that “its principal place of business” is “in the Fresno Judicial District, County of Fresno, State of California.” (Paragraph II, plaintiff’s…