Ex Parte Ambrose

In the Shelby County Circuit Court, John R. Ambrose, Jr., and Jarrell Ambrose Taylor, brother and sister (the plaintiffs), sued their uncle Ehney A. Ambrose (the defendant) for a declaratory judgment, an accounting, negligence, wantonness, breach of fiduciary duty, conversion, and fraudulent suppression. The gravamens of the plaintiffs' claims are the defendant's alleged acts and omissions as a partner and fiduciary in a partnership previously formed to manage certain family real property in Shelby County ("the Alabaster property") now owned by the plaintiffs and the defendant as tenants in…