Ex Parte General Motors Corporation

LAWSON, Justice.

This is an original petition for writ of mandamus to require the Honorable Edward L. Ball, as Judge of the Circuit Court of the Tenth Judicial Circuit (Jefferson County), Bessemer Division, to vacate an order transferring the cause from the law side to the equity side of the court.

The respondent Judge has waived the issuance of a rule nisi and has filed an answer wherein he admits the truth of all averments of the petition for mandamus *362except ’those to the effect that his order transferring the cause is erroneous.

We have held that mandamus is the proper remedy to review an…