Cox v. Braden

Opinion of the Court by

Justice NOBLE.

The Appellants appeal from a decision of the Court of Appeals denying a petition for a writ of mandamus directing the trial judge to set aside an order transferring a case between the two divisions of the Whitley Circuit Court and to assign cases in a random manner. Because Appellants have failed to demonstrate entitlement to the extraordinary writ, the Court of Appeals is affirmed.

I. Background

Because this case involves a writ action, the record is all but non-existent, consisting only of the papers filed by the parties and one videotape of a short…