Stokes v. Stokes

NEWBY, Justice.

**771 In this case we consider the appropriate timing of a trial court's consideration of a motion to change venue based upon the convenience of witnesses and whether such a decision is an interlocutory order subject to immediate appellate review. In doing so, we must decide if filing an answer is a prerequisite for the trial court to enter a discretionary order changing venue. The trial court and Court of Appeals determined defendant's motion challenging venue was proper because it was equivalent to an "answer." While defendant's filing was not an answer under our Rules of…