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TIDE WATER ASSOC. OIL CO. v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket Nos. L.A. 23262, 23263, 23264.

43 Cal.2d 815 (1955)

279 P.2d 35

TIDE WATER ASSOCIATED OIL COMPANY (a Corporation), Petitioner, v. SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; PORTER SESNON et al., Real Parties in Interest. PACIFIC LIGHTING GAS SUPPLY COMPANY (a Corporation), Petitioner, v. SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; PORTER SESNON et al., Real Parties in Interest. CARLTON BEAL et al., Petitioners, v. SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; PORTER SESNON et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

January 25, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert W. Clark, William F. Kiessig, Robert D. Raven, Scott L. Harrington, Morrison, Hohfeld, Foerster, Shuman & Clark, Oscar C. Sattinger, Twitchell & Rice, Overton, Lyman, Prince & Vermille and Donald H. Ford for Petitioners.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and John F. Hassler, Deputy Attorney General, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioners.

Harold W. Kennedy, County Counsel (Los Angeles), and John B. Anson, Deputy County Counsel, for Respondent.

Everett S. Layman, Kenneth S. Carey, Lawrence W. Jordan, Jr., James M. Dennis and Everett S. Layman, Jr., for Real Parties in Interest.

GIBSON, C.J.

Each of these three cases arises out of a suit brought by the state to enjoin unreasonable waste of gas, and each involves the question whether certain defendants are entitled to a writ of prohibition to prevent the trial of issues raised by a cross-complaint filed by other defendants.

Following a complaint by some of the operators in an oil field that there was an unreasonable waste of gas contrary to the provisions of section 3300 of the Public...

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