
    Ex parte THOMPSON TRACTOR COMPANY, INC. (Re T.A. HALL v. THOMPSON TRACTOR COMPANY, INC., and Caterpillar, Inc.).
    1961936.
    Supreme Court of Alabama.
    May 15, 1998.
    Alex F. Lankford III of Hand, Arendall, L.L.C., Mobile, for-petitioner.
    Samuel N. Crosby and Russell J. Watson of Stone, Granade & Crosby, Bay Minette, for respondents.
   ALMON, Justice.

This petition is due .to be granted on the authority of Ex parte Caterpillar, Inc., 708 So.2d 142 (Ala.1997).

WRIT GRANTED.

HOOPER, C.J., and MADDOX, SHORES, HOUSTON, KENNEDY, COOK, and SEE, JJ., concur.  