GOODWIN v. CULPEPPER ENTERPRISES, INC.

Nos. 2006-IA-00863-SCT, 2006-IA-00975-SCT.

963 So.2d 1166 (2007)

Raphael GOODWIN, Jr., Administrator of the Estate of Barbara Gray Goodwin; Raphael Goodwin, Jr., Individually; Emma Delores Goodwin, A Minor, by and through Her Mother and Next Friend Valerie Hughes; and the Estate of Raphael Goodwin, Sr. v. CULPEPPER ENTERPRISES, INC., and APAC Mississippi, Inc. William Ivy v. Culpepper Enterprises, Inc., and APAC Mississippi, Inc.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

September 6, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry Palmer, Will Parker, attorneys for appellants in No. 2006-IA-00863-SCT.

Henry Palmer, attorney for appellants in No. 2006-IA-00975-SCT.

Marcus Alfred Treadway, III, James D. Holland, Jay Max Kilpatrick, Erin S. Rodgers, Robert L. Wells, Jackson, attorneys for appellees.

Before SMITH, C.J., DICKINSON and LAMAR, JJ.


DICKINSON, Justice, for the Court.

¶ 1. Plaintiffs, Barbara Gray Goodwin, Raphael Goodwin, Jr., and Emma Delores Goodwin (collectively, the "Goodwins") appeal the circuit court's order transferring venue of their claims from Lauderdale County to Covington County on the basis of forum non conveniens. Finding that, at the time this suit was filed, neither the common law nor the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure...

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