Dare Productions, Inc. v. Owen

From the holding of the majority, that venue being proper in Houston County as to Dale Morris & Associates, Inc., it is proper as to all defendants, I respectfully dissent. The majority opinion in effect determines the venue rights of Alabama residents to be secondary to those of a foreign corporation not qualified to do business in this state. This is a result never intended by our statutes, case law, or Rules of Civil Procedure.

The instant case involves a multiparty action in which resident individual and corporate defendants are joined with non-resident individual and corporate defendants.…