BROWN v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. L.A. 29775.

3 Cal.3d 427 (1970)

476 P.2d 105

90 Cal. Rptr. 737

JOSEPH HUNTER BROWN, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, Respondent; MICHAEL O. SULLIVAN et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

November 6, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Sprague & Milligan and Wallace B. Farrell for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

T. Groezinger, Loton D. Wells, Edwin J. Dubiel, James J. Vonk, Melanie Schodde, Herbert Lasky and James R. Dunn for Real Parties in Interest.


OPINION

BURKE, J.

Petitioner in this mandamus proceeding seeks to compel respondent superior court to approve a settlement agreement reached between petitioner as plaintiff and real parties in interest Sullivan et al. as defendants in a third-party tortfeasor action, but which settlement lacked the consent of the workmen's compensation insurance carrier (carrier) of petitioner's employer. As will appear, we have concluded that the...

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