EX PARTE FORD MOTOR CREDIT CO.

1990291 and 1990376.

772 So.2d 437 (2000)

Ex parte FORD MOTOR CREDIT COMPANY and Deep South Recovery of Dothan, Inc. Ex parte Universal Underwriters Life Insurance Company. (Re Inese A. Ford v. Ford Motor Credit Company et al.)

Supreme Court of Alabama.

May 19, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William L. Howell, Stephen L. Klimjack, and William C. Poole of William L. Howell, P.A., Mobile, for petitioners Ford Motor Credit Company and Deep South Recovery of Dothan, Inc.

Samuel H. Franklin and Wynn M. Shuford of Lightfoot, Franklin & White, L.L.C., Birmingham, for petitioner Universal Underwriters Life Insurance Company.

Christian E. Roberson of Roberson & Roberson, Birmingham, for respondent.


MADDOX, Justice.

Ford Motor Credit Company ("FMCC"), Deep South Recovery of Dothan, Inc. ("Deep South"), and Universal Underwriters Life Insurance Company ("Universal"), defendants in an action pending in the Barbour Circuit Court, petition for a writ of mandamus directing the trial judge to dismiss that action. These mandamus petitions present a single question—a question we cannot answer from the materials before us: When a circuit judge, applying the doctrine...

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