EX PARTE STATE FARM MUT. AUTO. INS. CO.

78-824.

386 So.2d 1133 (1980)

Ex parte STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Petitioner. In re Howard JOHNSON, as Administrator of the Estate of Rether Johnson, Deceased, v. Nancy LYNCH, Tammie Ward, David Campbell, et al.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied August 8, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred W. Killion, Jr. and Patricia K. Olney, of Pillans, Reams, Tappan, Wood, Roberts & Vollmer, P. C., Mobile, for petitioner.

Joseph J. Boswell, Mobile, for respondents.


FAULKNER, Justice.

State Farm Insurance Company petitions for a writ of mandamus to Judge Elwood L. Hogan to review and reverse his order requiring it to turn over large portions of its investigative file to Howard Johnson, administrator of the estate of Rether Johnson, for his use in a wrongful death action against State Farm's insured. The writ is granted.

Howard Johnson, as administrator of the estate of Rether Johnson filed suit on September 6, 1977 against...

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