Ex Parte Cassidy

772 So.2d 445 (2000)

Ex parte Ernest CASSIDY and Watford Enterprises, Inc.

(In re Kent Turner Brock v. Ernest Cassidy et al.)

1990531.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

May 19, 2000.

Robert C. Black, Jr., and Paul A. Clark of Hill, Hill, Carter, Franco, Cole & Black, P.C., Montgomery, for petitioners.

Thomas D. Motley and Kimberly A. Clark of Motley, Motley & Yarbrough, Dothan, for respondent.

HOUSTON, Justice.

Ernest Cassidy and Watford Enterprises, Inc., the defendants in an action currently pending in the Houston Circuit Court, petition for a writ of mandamus directing the trial court to join the plaintiff…