242 - Inhabitants not incompetent; place of trial of actions and proceedings.

§ 242. Inhabitants  not  incompetent;  place  of  trial of actions and  proceedings.  Upon the trial of any issue  or  the  prosecution  of  any  proceeding,  or  upon the taking or making of any inquisition, appraisal  or award, or upon the judicial investigation of any facts  whatever,  to  which  issue, proceedings, inquest, investigation or award the city is a  party, or in which the city may, in any way, be  interested,  no  person  shall  be  deemed incompetent as a judge, referee, commissioner, witness  or juror by reason of his being an inhabitant, freeholder or taxpayer of  the city. The place of trial of all actions and proceedings against  the  city,  or any of its officers, boards or departments shall be the county  in which the city is situated.