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KETCHIKAN GENERAL HOSP. v. DUNNAGAN

No. S-2227.

757 P.2d 57 (1988)

KETCHIKAN GENERAL HOSPITAL, Hilbert J. Hendrickson, M.D., and Thomas Conley, M.D., Petitioners, v. Steven DUNNAGAN and Janet Dunnagan, individually and as guardians of the minor child, Megan Dunnagan, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

July 1, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geoffrey G. Currall, Keene & Currall, Ketchikan, for petitioner Ketchikan General Hosp.

Roger Holmes, David Millen, Biss & Holmes, Anchorage, for petitioners Hendrickson and Conley.

L. Ames Luce, Dan A. Hensley, Law Offices of L. Ames Luce, Anchorage, for respondents.

Before RABINOWITZ, BURKE and COMPTON, JJ.

OPINION

BURKE, Justice.

The question presented by this petition for review is whether the superior court in the location where an action is begun has discretion to relax the venue requirements of Civil Rule 3, when the complaint is filed in the wrong judicial district. We hold that the court has no such discretion and reverse the order retaining venue.

I

Respondent Megan Dunnagan was born in Ketchikan General Hospital on December 19, 1984...

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