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CARTT v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. 45865.

50 Cal.App.3d 960 (1975)

124 Cal. Rptr. 376

SANDRA LEE CARTT, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA, Real Party in Interest.

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

July 25, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Hecht & Diamond and Roger Jon Diamond for Petitioner.

Robert E. Cartwright, Edward I. Pollock, William H. Lally, Stephen I. Zetterberg, Robert G. Beloud, Ned Good, David B. Baum, Arne Werchick, Elmer Low, Leonard Sacks and Raymond T. Bonner as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, Noble K. Gregory, C. Douglas Floyd, Lawler, Felix & Hall, Reed A. Stout, Thomas E. Workman, Jr., J. Richard Morrissey and Bernard E. LeSage for Real Party in Interest.

OPINION

KAUS, P.J.

This writ proceeding arises out of a typical consumer class action in which the damages sought by each of the class members are paltry — a few dollars at most — yet if there is any merit to the suit, the total recovery may run into six or seven figures. This, therefore, is precisely the type of action which results in "substantial benefits ... both to the litigants and to the court" (Daar v...

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