EX PARTE SAWYER

1020460.

873 So.2d 166 (2003)

Ex parte Kathy SAWYER and Phillip Boyd. (In re Candace Lambert, as administratrix of the estate of Marguerite Hicks, Deceased v. State of Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation et al.)

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied August 29, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Clements, Ricky J. McKinney, and Robert E. Battle of Burr & Forman, LLP, Birmingham; and Courtney Tarver, Alabama Department of Mental Health & Mental Retardation, for petitioners.

Kenneth J. Mendelsohn, Thomas E. James, and Ellenann C. Benefield of Jemison, Mendelsohn & James, P.C., Montgomery, for respondents.


WOODALL, Justice.

Kathy Sawyer and Phillip Boyd, defendants in a civil action filed by Candace Lambert, as administratrix of the estate of Marguerite Hicks, deceased, petition this Court for a writ of mandamus directing the Montgomery Circuit Court ("the trial court") to vacate the order it entered on December 4, 2002, purporting to return the action to the Montgomery Circuit Court after it had transferred it to the Baldwin Circuit Court. We grant the petition and...

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