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RJR NABISCO HOLDINGS v. DUNN

No. 18S04-9507-CV-802.

657 N.E.2d 1220 (1995)

RJR NABISCO HOLDINGS, Corporations, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, Co., Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., Philip Morris, Inc., Liggett Group, Inc., Liggett & Myers, Inc., American Brands, Inc., American Tobacco Co., Loews Corp., Lorillard Corp., the Tobacco Institute, Inc., and the Counsel for Tobacco Research, Appellants, (Defendants below), v. Craig DUNN and Phillip Wiley, Co-Administrators of the Estate of Mildred Wiley, Deceased, and Phillip Wiley, Individually, Appellees, (Plaintiffs below).

Supreme Court of Indiana.

Rehearing Denied February 23, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard D. Wagner, James G. McIntire, Kreig, DeVault, Alexander & Capehart, Indianapolis, Karl Mulvaney, David O. Tittle, Duane R. Denton, Bingham, Summers, Welsh & Spilman, Indianapolis, Terrill D. Albright, Ellen E. Boshkoff, Baker & Daniels, Indianapolis, Scott Shockley, Defur, Voran, Hanley, Radcliff & Reed, Muncie, Ralph A. Cohen, Angela K. Wade, Ice Miller Donadio & Ryan, Indianapolis, James W. Riley, Jr., Julia B. Jackson, Riley Bennett & Egloff, Indianapolis, Douglas J. Hill, Hill, Fulwider, McDowell, Funk & Matthews, Indianapolis, Charles W. McNagny, Hoffman, Thompson, Skekloff, Rogers & McNagny, Fort Wayne, Daniel P. Byron, Steven Hardin, McHale, Cook & Welch, Indianapolis, for Appellant.

P. Gregory Cross, Cross, Marshall, Schuck, DeWeese, Cross & Feick, P.C., Muncie, Thomas J. Young, William N. Riley, Young & Riley, Indianapolis, James H. Young, John P. Young, Joseph B. Young, William E. Young, Frederick W. Crow, Young & Young, Indianapolis, Max Howard, Mark Dudley, Howard & Dudley, Anderson, for Appellee.

ON PETITION TO TRANSFER

SULLIVAN, Justice.

We conclude that an estate is not an "individual plaintiff" under Indiana Trial Rule 75(A)(10) and, therefore, not subject to the preferred venue requirement of that subsection of T.R. 75.

Background

The background of this interlocutory appeal, taken in part from the opinion of the Court of Appeals in RJR Nabisco Holdings Corporations v. Dunn (1994), Ind. App., 642...

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