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Rule 528. Venue Changed on Affidavit

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If any party to a suit before any justice shall make an affidavit supported by the affidavit of two other credible persons, citizens of the county, that they have good reason to believe, and do believe, that such party cannot have a fair and impartial trial before such justice or in such justice’s precinct, the justice shall transfer such suit to the court of the nearest justice within the county not subject to the same or some other disqualification.

Source: Art. 2394, unchanged.

Oct. 29, 1940, eff. Sept. 1, 1941. Repealed by order of April 15, 2013, eff. Aug. 31, 2013.