Fleet Force, Inc. v. Adams

PITTMAN, Judge.

Lynn Adams (“the employee”) petitions for a writ of mandamus directed to the Franklin Circuit Court compelling, among other things, that court to transfer an action brought in that court pursuant to the Alabama Workers’ Compensation Act (now codified at § 25-5-1 et seq., Ala.Code 1975) by Fleet Force, Inc., to the Choctaw Circuit Court. We deny the petition.

In March 2007, Fleet Force filed a complaint in the Franklin Circuit Court alleging that it was a corporation doing business in Franklin County and that the employee was an individual residing in Toxey, Alabama, who had…