Ex Parte State Farm Fire and Casualty Co.

State Farm Fire and Casualty Company ("State Farm"), the defendant in an action pending in the Coffee Circuit Court, petitions for a writ of mandamus directing Judge Thomas E. Head III to vacate his order denying State Farm's motion to compel production of documents and directing Judge Head to grant that motion. We grant the petition in part and deny it in part.

In 1997, Barbara Carrington and her brother, Gary Brown, among others, were sued by other relatives in connection with a dispute concerning whether the body of Milton Harvey Brown III, Carrington and Brown's deceased brother, was to be…