437.1. When issue is joined, the chief justice or chief judge or the judge designated by him may order that proof and hearing in any case take place in another district, at the place where the court sits and before the judge who presides over such court, in order that judgment may be rendered there.
The parties may proceed in such other district as if the case were pending there, five days after the clerk of such district has received the record.
1969, c. 80, s. 7; 1992, c. 57, s. 420; 1996, c. 5, s. 33.