FARR v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. 38961.

22 Cal.App.3d 60 (1971)

99 Cal. Rptr. 342

WILLIAM T. FARR, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; THE PEOPLE, Real Party in Interest.

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

December 17, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Cooper & Nelsen and Grant B. Cooper for Petitioner.

Robert C. Lobdell, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Robert S. Warren, Dean S. Lesher, George R. Johnson, Flint & Mac Kay, Edward L. Compton, R. Garrick Ritchie, Edwin Freston, Jack B. Purcell, William Whitsett, McCutchen, Black, Verleger & Shea, Howard J. Privett, Bodle, Fogel, Julber & Reinhardt, George E. Bodle, Daniel Fogel, Stephen Reinhardt, and Earl Klein as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

John D. Maharg, County Counsel, and William F. Stewart, Deputy County Counsel, for Respondent.

No appearance for Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

THOMPSON, J.

This is a petition for writ of review of an order of respondent court adjudging petitioner Farr to be in contempt for failing to answer questions put to him. We conclude that the trial court properly found petitioner to be in contempt of court.

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