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BURT v. SCARBOROUGH

Docket No. L.A. 26445.

56 Cal.2d 817 (1961)

366 P.2d 498

17 Cal. Rptr. 148

ATHALIE IRVINE BURT, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. JAMES G. SCARBOROUGH et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

November 16, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Loeb & Loeb, Howard I. Friedman and Herman F. Selvin for Plaintiff and Appellant.

McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, McCutchen, Black, Harnagel & Shea, Morris M. Doyle, George Harnagel, Jr., and Jack T. Swafford for Defendants and Respondents.

DOOLING, J.

Athalie Irvine Burt, a director of the Irvine Company, brought this action in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County for a writ of mandate against the company and its six other directors to compel them to allow her "accompanied by counsel of her choice" to attend meetings of the company's board of directors. Four of the directors — Scarborough, McFadden, Honer and Wheeler — moved for a change of venue to Orange County, upon the ground that...

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