Ketchikan General Hospital v. Dunnagan

OPINION

BURKE, Justice.

The question presented by this petition for review is whether the superior court in the location where an action is begun has discretion to relax the venue requirements of Civil Rule 3, when the complaint is filed in the wrong judicial district. We hold that the court has no such discretion and reverse the order retaining venue.

I

Respondent Megan Dunnagan was bom in Ketchikan General Hospital on December 19, 1984, with the functional loss of both kidneys. Immediately after her birth, she was flown to Seattle to receive medical treatment for her kidney malfunction. Megan’s…