Ex Parte Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.

GOODWYN, Justice.

The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company petitioned this court for an alternative writ of mandamus to be directed to Honorable J. Edgar Bowron, as Judge of the Tenth Judicial Circuit of Alabama. We ordered issuance of a rule nisi as prayed for and Judge Bowron has made answer thereto.

The question presented is whether the insurance company’s motion to transfer the case of Evelyn E. R. Booker, plaintiff, v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, a corporation, defendant, from the law side to the equity side of the court is sufficient as against plaintiff’s demurrer interposed…