Kirk v. Alfa Mutual Insurance Co.

PITTMAN, Judge.

Alfa Mutual Insurance Company (“the insurer”) petitions1 for a writ of mandamus directed to the Macon Circuit Court directing that court to transfer, pursuant to the authority conferred in Ala.Code 1975, § 6-3-21.1, a civil action filed by Willie L. Kirk, Jr. (“the insured”), from that court to the Lee Circuit Court. We grant the petition.

The attachments to the insurer’s petition and the insured’s response indicate the following pertinent facts. The insured filed a single-count complaint in the Macon Circuit Court naming the insurer and various fictitiously named persons as…