Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Mann

This is an interlocutory appeal from an order denying defendants’ motions for a change of venue and for transfer of cause and an alternative motion to dismiss. We reverse.

Plaintiff, a judge in the Second District Court of Appeal, was seriously injured in an automobile accident in Tampa. His complaint alleges that an employee of defendant-Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company caused the accident, and Travelers was Goodyear’s insurer. The suit was filed in Circuit Court for Dade County.

Defendants, in the motion for change of venue, recited that the accident occurred in *682Hillsborough County, that all…