Ex Parte Furnace & Corrosive Services, Inc.

This is a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the trial judge to sever claims made, in an amended complaint, against Furnace and Corrosive Services, Inc., La-Mo Refractory Supply Company, Inc., and J.R. Mauldin, from other claims against other parties in the original complaint filed in this action. We will grant the writ of mandamus in this case.

On 7 April 1978, Murphy Manufacturing Company, Inc., filed suit against the following:

"Tyler Morgan Associates, Tyler Morgan, individually, Edward Douglas, Industrial Furnace Company, J. Gordon English Company, Inc., Atomic Machine Welding Co.,…