Parker v. Crow

I concur in the majority opinion and with the granting of the writ of certiorari, but I would do so on somewhat different grounds than the majority.

The circuit court treated the motion in the Trublood case as one requesting a change of venue, deemed it uncontested, granted it, and then gratuitously and wrongly invalidated the act which would have necessitated the venue change.1 It thereafter entered a standing |14order implementing the latter conclusion. I have no hesitancy in concluding that this action constituted a plain, manifest, clear, and gross abuse of discretion apparent from the…