Ex Parte Thomasville Feed & Seed, Inc. (in Re Roy Saulsberry and Roy Saulsberry, Jr. v. Thomasville Feed & Seed, Inc.)

Summary

The Alabama Supreme Court granted Thomasville Feed & Seed’s petition for a writ of mandamus, ordering the transfer of the suit filed by Roy and Roy Saulsberry from the Wilcox Circuit Court to the Clarke Circuit Court. The Court held that venue was improper in Wilcox County because the corporation’s principal office is in Clarke County and it does not do business by agent in Wilcox, and the alleged wrongful act occurred in Clarke. The opinion notes a concurrence by Justice Murdock, who disagreed with the Court’s construction of the venue statute but concurred in the result.