In this action brought by a passenger allegedly injured in a two-car collision in Bronx County, the motion court properly granted the venue change to Westchester County in accordance with CPLR 504, which provides, inter alia, that all actions brought against a county shall be tried in that county. While the CPLR speaks in mandatory terms, exceptions have been judicially recognized in the face of "compelling countervailing circumstances" (Rogers v U-Haul Co....
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