COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. Sac. 7934.

8 Cal.3d 479 (1972)

503 P.2d 1382

105 Cal. Rptr. 374

COUNTY OF SACRAMENTO, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SACRAMENTO COUNTY, Respondent; JANE POWERS FEDERER et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

December 19, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Fitzwilliam, Memering, Stumbos & DeMers and Donald S. Walter for Petitioner.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, James E. Sabine, Assistant Attorney General, Lloyd Hinkelman and Thomas K. McGuire, Deputy Attorneys General, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Colley & McGhee and Nathaniel S. Colley for Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

McCOMB, J.

Petitioner seeks a writ of prohibition restraining respondent court from proceeding in a wrongful death action filed by real parties in interest against petitioner.

Facts: Real parties in interest allege in their complaint that they are the heirs of Kenneth Jack Federer, who was shot and killed by prisoners in the process of a burglary of the Federer home...

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