TWIN LOCK, INC. v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. L.A. 25501.

52 Cal.2d 754 (1959)

344 P.2d 788

TWIN LOCK, INCORPORATED (a Corporation), Petitioner, v. SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; ALBERT AGRON et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

October 9, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Claude Fields, Jr., Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Frederic H. Sturdy and John L. Endicott for Petitioner.

Harold W. Kennedy, County Counsel, William E. Lamoreaux, Assistant County Counsel, and Edward A. Nugent, Deputy County Counsel, for Respondent.

Maxwell E. Greenberg, Norbert A. Schlei, O'Melveny & Myers and Philip F. Westbrook, Jr., for Real Parties in Interest.


GIBSON, C.J.

Twin Lock, Incorporated, seeks a writ of prohibition to prevent the imposition of sanctions against it by respondent court because certain officers and directors of the corporation who are residents of the state of New York failed to appear in response to a notice for the taking of their depositions pursuant to provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure enacted in 1957 with respect to discovery. (Stats. 1957...

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