CITIZENS UTILITIES CO. v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. 37323.

56 Cal.App.3d 399 (1976)

128 Cal. Rptr. 582

CITIZENS UTILITIES COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF ALAMEDA COUNTY, Respondent; THE PEOPLE, Real Party in Interest.

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

March 23, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, Weymen I. Lundquist and J.C. Bensick for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Evelle J. Younger, Attorney General, Elizabeth Palmer, Assistant Attorney General, and Joanne Condas Rabin, Deputy Attorney General, for Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

MOLINARI, P.J.

Petitioner seeks a writ of prohibition restraining respondent court from entertaining a quo warranto action brought against petitioner by the People of the State of California.

In the subject action the People pray for a judgment declaring that petitioner be declared to be unlawfully holding and exercising a franchise to construct, operate and maintain a water system serving Niles-Decoto and vicinities...

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