...place of its execution or payment, may be instituted under section 395 of the Coda of Civil Procedure, "in the county in which the defendants, or some of them, reside at the commencement of the action, . . . subject to the power of the court to change the place of trial, as provided in this code." ID....

...the seemingly broad provision that transitory actions, in the absence of a statute to the contrary, "must be tried in the county in which the defendants, or some of them reside at the time of the commencement of the action, or may be served with process." But this statute is construed...

...proper county for the trial"; for the provision is that, in cases like the one at bar, "the action must be tried in the county in which the defendants, or some of them reside." (Code Civ. Proc., sec. 395.) Therefore, as defendant Barling resided in Fresno county, the latter is...

...change, cannot deprive the othei defendants of the right to make the demand, and to have the cas« tried in the county in which the defendants, or some of them, resided when the action was commenced. APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of County granting...