HARMON v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. 17714.

307 F.2d 796 (1962)

Francis L. HARMON, Appellant, v. The SUPERIOR COURT OF the STATE OF CALIFORNIA, IN AND FOR the COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES; Elmer D. Doyle; Roger A. Pfaff; John J. Ford; Clement L. Shinn; Paul Vallee; Parker Wood; Stanley Mosk; Norman L. Epstein; William B. McKesson; Harold O. Pressman; Harold J. Ostly, as Clerk of the Superior Court; Peter J. Pitchess, as Los Angeles County Sheriff; Karl Holton, as Los Angeles County Probation Officer and Court Trustee; Roscoe Hollinger, as Los Angeles County Auditor; and Howard L. Byram, as Los Angeles County Treasurer, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

September 11, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis L. Harmon, in pro. per., for appellant.

Stanley Mosk, Atty. Gen. of Cal., and Joan D. Gross, Deputy Atty. Gen., Los Angeles, Cal., for appellees, John J. Ford, Clement L. Shinn, Paul Vallee, Parker Wood, Stanley Mosk, and Norman L. Epstein.

Harold W. Kennedy, County Counsel, County of Los Angeles, and Robert C. Lynch, Deputy County Counsel, Los Angeles, Cal., for remaining appellees.

Before CHAMBERS and DUNIWAY, Circuit Judges, and TAVARES, District Judge.


DUNIWAY, Circuit Judge.

This is the second time in recent months that we have had before us an appeal from a judgment of dismissal made by a District Judge of the Southern District of California on his own motion and before service of process upon any defendant. (See Addison v. The Grand Lodge of International Association of Machinists, 9 Cir., 1962, 300 F.2d 863). The dismissal here was by a different judge. It reads as follows:...

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