Ex Parte Ford Motor Credit Co.

Ford Motor Credit Company ("FMCC"), Deep South Recovery of Dothan, Inc. ("Deep South"), and Universal Underwriters Life Insurance Company ("Universal"), defendants in an action pending in the Barbour Circuit Court, petition for a writ of mandamus directing the trial judge to dismiss that action. These mandamus petitions present a single question — a question we cannot answer from the materials before us: When a circuit judge, applying the doctrine of forum non conveniens, dismisses a pending action, without prejudice, on the ground that the State of Florida would be a more convenient forum,…