Ex parte Southern Bell Tel. & Tel. Co.

STAKELY, Justice.

This is an original petition for mandamus seeking to review an order of the Hon. A. B. Cunningham, Judge of the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit, overruling the petitioner’s motion to dismiss or to transfer a cause from Etowah County to Montgomery County under the common law doctrine of forum non conveniens.

The status of the proceedings, insofar as here pertinent, is as follows. A suit for malicious prosecution was filed in the Circuit Court of Etowah County by Clarence B. Hardy against the Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, a corporation, and John N. Relfe based on an…