Ex Parte Mount

BROWN, Justice.

This is an original petition for mandamus seeking to review an order of the circuit court of Jefferson County, the Honorable Whit Windham, Judge presiding, overruling the petitioner’s motion to consolidate, for the purposes of a trial, four suits pending against him in said court with a suit brought by him against M. P. Hannon.

All of said suits, as the petition alleges, and the answer of the trial judge admits, arise out of a collision between the auto mobiles of the petitioner and said Hannon and are for personal injury and property damage, in consequence of alleged negligence…