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MELANCON v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. L.A. 22883.

42 Cal.2d 698 (1954)

268 P.2d 1050

CLEMENT J. MELANCON, Petitioner, v. SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 16, 1954.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Guy E. Ward and David B. Heyler, Jr., for Petitioner.

Kenneth N. Chantry and David Mellinkoff as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

Harold W. Kennedy, County Counsel (Los Angeles), and William E. Lamoreaux, Deputy County Counsel, for Respondent.

O'Melveny & Myers, William W. Alsup, Philip F. Westbrook, Jr., Wright, Wright, Green & Wright, Loyd Wright, Charles A. Loring, Loeb & Loeb, Herman F. Selvin, Allen E. Susman and John L. Cole, for Real Parties in Interest.

SCHAUER, J.

Petitioner seeks mandate to compel the superior court to enforce his claimed right to take the depositions of certain of the individual defendants, and officers of corporate defendants, in connection with a derivative stockholders' suit filed by petitioner, a stockholder in and as plaintiff on behalf of, defendant corporation Walt Disney Productions. The other defendants named are another corporation and seven individuals. Petitioner1...

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