STAUFFER CHEMICAL CO. v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. 11952.

265 Cal.App.2d 1 (1968)

71 Cal. Rptr. 202

STAUFFER CHEMICAL COMPANY, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SISKIYOU COUNTY, Respondent; GLEN ARTHUR et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

August 16, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cushing, Cullinan, Hancock & Rothert and Stephen H. Slabach for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Newton & Newton, Michael P. Newton and Mitchell Boyd for Real Parties in Interest.


FRIEDMAN, J.

Petitioner Stauffer Chemical Company is a defendant in nine separate suits seeking damages allegedly caused by an agricultural weed killer. Although all the plaintiffs farmed in Modoc County, they filed the suits in Siskiyou County where a codefendant resided. Stauffer moved to change venue to Modoc County. In four of the suits the plaintiffs were landowners, alleging damage to their soil as well as to their growing crops. These four suits were transferred...

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