Ex Parte Hughes

Jesse Hughes d/b/a RBM Transport Company ("Hughes"), the defendant in a breach-of-contract action filed by Lee Lumber Company, LLC, petitions this Court for a writ of mandamus directing the Bibb Circuit Court to transfer this action to the Pickens Circuit Court pursuant to § 6-3-2(a)(2), Ala. Code 1975, which provides, in relevant part, that "[a]ll actions on contracts, except as may be otherwise provided, must be commenced in the county in which the defendant . . . resides if such defendant has within the state a permanent residence." We grant the petition and issue the writ.

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