Commercial Carriers Corp. v. Kelley

In a pending personal injury accident growing out of a multi-vehicle collision, the petitioners, Commercial Carriers Corporation and Linda Sue Faulkner, who are defendants below, seek certiorari review of the trial court’s order denying their amended motion to consolidate the instant case with three other cases growing out of the same accident. Because we find no abuse of discretion on the part of the trial court, we deny the petition.

The primary reason asserted by the petitioners for the consolidation is to “avoid the prejudicial [sic] unfair and cost prohibitive results of separate trials.”…