JAMES R. TWISS, LTD. v. SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY

Docket No. 27025.

215 Cal.App.2d 247 (1963)

30 Cal. Rptr. 98

JAMES R. TWISS, LTD., Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; VICTOR BOBIKEVICH, Real Party in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Four.

April 18, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lillick, Geary, McHose, Roethke & Myers, William H. Brainerd and David Brice Toy for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Margolis & McTernan and Elaine B. Fischel for Real Party in Interest.


BURKE, P.J.

An English corporation, James R. Twiss, Ltd., petitions this court for a writ of mandate to compel the superior court to quash service of summons and complaint for lack of jurisdiction on the ground that petitioner "is not and was never doing business" within the State of California.

Plaintiff, a longshoreman, charging petitioner with negligence in failure to provide a safe place of employment and unseaworthiness of vessel, filed an action against...

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