Ex Parte Charter Retreat Hosp., Inc.

The majority's reasoning means that a parent corporation's ownership of all the stock of a subsidiary corporation constitutes, for venue purposes, "doing business" wherever the subsidiary does business.

I would hold that ownership of all the stock of a subsidiary corporation is not "doing business" by the parent corporation in the counties where the subsidiary corporation does business, unless the subsidiary corporation is either an agent of the parent (see Ex parte Peabody Galion Co.,497 So.2d 1126 (Ala. 1986) or an alter ego of the parent or the parent is estopped to deny that it is doing…