Ex Parte Jim Walter Homes, Inc.

On Rehearing Ex Mero Motu

The opinion of March 24, 2000, is withdrawn, and the following is substituted therefor.

Jim Walter Homes, Inc. ("Jim Walter"); Mid-State Homes, Inc. ("Mid-State"); Best Insurers, Inc. ("Best"); and William J. Wade have filed in this Court a document styled as a petition for the writ of mandamus. We treat that document as a request for an order voiding the transfer of two cases (Sumter Circuit Court, CV-97-21 and CV-97-43) by Judge Eddie Hardaway, Jr., to Judge Richard L. Osborne. Judge Hardaway transferred the two cases to Judge Osborne after Judge Hardaway had…