Alabama Public School & College Authority v. Marion Bradford & Associates, Architects

HOUSTON, Justice.

R.B. Ethridge and Associates, Inc., and the Cincinnati Insurance Company, Inc., petition for a writ of mandamus directing the Honorable Claude Hughes, Judge of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, to set aside his order of January 18, 1985, wherein he ordered a separate trial of the petitioners’ third-party claim against Bonitz Insulation Company of Alabama.

This case concerns a dispute over the design and construction of the School of Optometry building on the campus of the University of Alabama in Birmingham (UAB).

Plaintiffs, the Alabama Public School and College Authority…