Hotel Roosevelt Co. v. Hill

Petitioner, Hotel Roosevelt, asks this court to review by way of common law certiorari the trial court’s order denying a motion to dismiss the respondents’ complaint. We granted oral argument only upon the question of jurisdiction. Petitioner seeks to distinguish the unbroken line of appellate decisions denying certio-rari from such an order upon the theory that petitioners should not be burdened with the tremendous expense of defending the voluminous complaints filed by respondents and others.

By their brief and argument, petitioners reason that this court’s opinion in Romedy v. Johnston, 193…