Ex Parte Dorsey Trailers, Inc.

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Dorsey Trailers, Inc., petitions this court for an original writ of mandamus requiring the Honorable Terry Butts, Judge of the Circuit Court of Coffee County, to compel Pearl Mincey, plaintiff below, to answer petitioner's interrogatories and to stay further proceedings in the action for damages below until plaintiff supplies such answers.

This action arose when Bruce Mincey, deceased, was killed by the explosion of a steel drum which he was cutting with a…