Ex Parte Mobile Fixture & Equipment Co.

The plaintiff/petitioner, Mobile Fixture and Equipment Company, Inc., is a wholesale supplier of restaurant fixtures and equipment located in Mobile, Alabama. The defendant/respondent, Allied Alarms, Inc., is a locally owned alarm and security service in Mobile, Alabama, with a branch office near Birmingham, Alabama. Allied provides a variety of security and alarm services for approximately 5400 residential and commercial customers. Allied contracted with approximately 500 of its customers to provide a key response service in which Allied retains a key to the customer's building; upon…