STATE FARM ETC. INS. CO. v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. S.F. 19562.

47 Cal.2d 428 (1956)

304 P.2d 13

STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY (a Corporation), Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, Respondent; HELEN CORRICK et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

December 4, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bledsoe, Smith, Cathcart, Johnson & Phelps and Joseph W. Rogers, Jr., for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Delany, Fishgold & Freitas and Matthew M. Fishgold for Real Parties in Interest.


SPENCE, J.

Petitioner seeks a writ of mandate to compel respondent court to sever its declaratory relief action from certain personal injury actions and to proceed first with the trial of its declaratory relief action. It contends that respondent court abused its discretion (1) in ordering the consolidation for trial of the declaratory relief action and the personal injury actions; and (2) in failing to order that the declaratory relief action be tried prior to the...

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