Coastal Transport, Inc. v. Tillery

Smith, Chief Judge.

We granted this application for interlocutory review to consider whether the trial court erred in denying defendant-appellants’ motion to transfer for improper venue. Because venue of this action does not lie in Chatham County, the trial court erred. The judgment therefore must be reversed and this case remanded for determination of proper venue.

This action arose out of a collision on a highway in Dougherty County between an agricultural tractor driven by plaintiff Wesley DeWayne Tillery and a tractor-trailer driven by Ira D. Tyson, an employee of Coastal Transport, Inc.…