Hill v. Tucker

PITTMAN, Judge.

This appeal, which was transferred to this court by the Alabama Supreme Court pursuant to § 12-2-7(6), Ala.Code 1975, is ostensibly from a judgment of dismissal entered by the Birmingham Division of the Jefferson Circuit Court. Because we conclude that that judgment is void, we grant the appellees’ motion to dismiss the appeal.

In October 2001, Veronica Hill, acting through counsel, filed a 25-count complaint in the Bessemer Division of the Jefferson Circuit Court; in that action, which was assigned case number CV-01-1293 (hereinafter “the Bessemer action”), Hill named 10…