Ex Parte Fontaine Trailer Co.

The petitioners, Fontaine Trailer Company ("Fontaine") and International Truck and Engine Corporation ("International"), defendants in an action pending in the Wilcox Circuit Court, seek a writ of mandamus from this Court ordering the trial court to transfer the underlying case to the Winston Circuit Court. The background of the case, and the parties and claims involved in it, are as follows.

On February 22, 2001, Freddie Curry ("Curry") was killed in a vehicular collision that occurred in Orange County, Texas. At the time of his death he was a resident of Wilcox County, Alabama, and was…