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JANITA JARRETT, ETC., ET AL., appellants, v. ROBERT L. BERNER III, ET AL., respondents.

DECISION ORDER

ORDERED that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, the motion is denied, and the Clerk of the Supreme Court, Westchester County, is directed to deliver to the Clerk of the Supreme Court, Kings County, all papers filed in this action and certified copies of all minutes and entries ( see CPLR 511[d]).

The Supreme Court erred in granting the defendants' motion to change venue of the action from Kings County to Westchester County pursuant to CPLR 510(3). The defendants did not establish their entitlement to a change of venue based on the convenience of material, nonparty-witnesses ( see O'Brien v. Vassar Bros. Hosp., 207 A.D.2d 169, 172-173). The defendants failed to demonstrate how the treating podiatrist, or any other material, nonparty-witness, would be inconvenienced in the event that a change of venue were not granted ( see Small v. Chrysler Corp., 288 A.D.2d 208; Blumberg v. Salem Truck Leasing, 276 A.D.2d 577; Mallory v. Long Is. R.R., 245 A.D.2d 493). Accordingly, the motion should have been denied.

RITTER, J.P., S. MILLER, TOWNES, CRANE and RIVERA, JJ., concur.

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JARRETT v. BERNER
(Jun 1, 2004)