Ex Parte TranSouth Financial Corp.

The petitioners, TranSouth Financial Corporation, Associates Financial Life Insurance Company, Buddy Lewis, Pam McLeod, Carl Knight, and Steve Pickard, petition this Court for a writ of mandamus directed to the Circuit Court of Crenshaw County, to order the trial judge to transfer this action to the Circuit Court of Pike County. The petitioners contend that venue is improper in Crenshaw County.

Patsy O. Morrell filed a complaint in the Circuit Court of Crenshaw County, alleging that the petitioners, in bad faith, had refused to pay a "credit life" insurance policy she had purchased as part of…