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CORNING HOSPITAL DIST. v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. Sac. 7370.

57 Cal.2d 488 (1962)

370 P.2d 325

20 Cal. Rptr. 621

CORNING HOSPITAL DISTRICT, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF TEHAMA COUNTY, Respondent; LOUISA C. MUSKOPF et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 4, 1962.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Newton & Braun, Newton, Braun & Goodrich, Glenn D. Newton and William J. Braun for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

P.M. Barceloux, Burton J. Goldstein, Goldstein, Barceloux & Goldstein and Reginald M. Watt for Real Parties in Interest.

GIBSON, C.J.

Petitioner, a hospital district in Tehama County, seeks a writ of prohibition to prevent further proceedings in an action for personal injuries brought against it by Louisa and Richard Muskopf. The right to this relief depends upon the validity and effect of chapter 1404 of the 1961 statutes, which became effective September 15 of that year. The district asserts that by reason of this legislation it is entitled to rely on the doctrine of governmental...

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