DOWELL v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. S.F. 19553.

47 Cal.2d 483 (1956)

304 P.2d 1009

HERBERT H. DOWELL, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, Respondent; SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY, Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

December 14, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbagelata, Zief & Carmazzi, Rinaldo A. Carmazzi and Arthur C. Zief for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

A.B. Dunne, G. Blandin Colburn, Jr., and Dunne, Dunne & Phelps for Real Party in Interest.


SHENK, J.

This is an application for a writ of mandate to compel the respondent superior court to set aside its order denying an application for inspection pursuant to section 1000 of the Code of Civil Procedure. That section provides: "Any court in which an action is pending, or a judge thereof may, upon notice, order either party to give to the other, within a specified time, an inspection and copy or permission to take a copy, of entries of accounts in any book...

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