EX PARTE EDWARDS

83-1390.

460 So.2d 855 (1984)

Ex parte Robert L. EDWARDS. (In re: Robert L. EDWARDS v. SEABOARD COAST LINE RAILROAD CO.).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

November 9, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Eugene Rutledge and Clyde E. Riley of Rutledge, Fay & Kelly, Birmingham, for petitioner.

F. Saunders Aldridge, III of Hunter, MacLean, Exley & Dunn, Savannah, Ga., and Randall A. Jordan of Nightingale, Liles, Dennard & Jordan, Brunswick, Ga., and James L. Clark of Lange, Simpson, Robinson & Somerville, Birmingham, for respondent.


ALMON, Justice.

This petition for writ of mandamus raises a question of the authority of a circuit judge of this State to grant an order authorizing a party to take a deposition as part of a multi-party, multi-jurisdictional deposition to be taken before a federal magistrate in another state. The instant action is a suit against Seaboard Coast Line Railroad Company by Robert L. Edwards based on injuries allegedly suffered due to exposure to asbestos while Edwards...

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