Ex Parte Green Tree Financial Corporation, 1090110 (Ala. 1-14-2011)

PARKER, Justice.

Green Tree Financial Corporation a/k/a Conseco Financial Corporation (hereinafter referred to as “Green Tree”) petitions this Court for a writ of mandamus directing the Hale Circuit Court to vacate its order denying Green Tree’s motion to transfer the action against it and others to Tuscaloosa County. For reasons discussed below, we grant the petition and issue the writ.

According to the complaint filed in the trial court on May 30, 2008, Carla McKenzie, allegedly an agent of Southeastern Mobile Home Brokers, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as “Southeastern”), and/or Green Tree,…