Ex Parte Jerry Elliott. (in Re ex Parte International Paper Company. (in Re Jerry Elliott v. International Paper…

Summary

The court granted Elliott's petitions and directed the Court of Civil Appeals to quash its writs requiring transfer of the workers' compensation action from Conecuh County to Butler County. It held that the exclusive, long-term timber-supply agreements recorded in Conecuh County constituted doing business there because obtaining timber was an integral and regularly exercised function of the defendants' plywood-manufacturing business. MURDOCK, Justice, dissenting, would have held that merely entering into supply contracts and purchasing raw materials did not establish doing business in Conecuh County.