BAUGUESS v. PAINE

Docket No. S.F. 23764.

22 Cal.3d 626 (1978)

586 P.2d 942

150 Cal. Rptr. 461

IRA JAMES BAUGUESS, Plaintiff, v. WEBSTER PAINE et al., Movants and Respondents; MAXIM N. BACH, Objector and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

November 16, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Maxim B. Bach, in pro. per., Bach & Bach and Timothy J. Evans for Objector and Appellant.

Marshall W. Krause, Krause, Baskin & Shell, Ephriam Margolin, Herbert M. Rosenthal and Truitt A. Richey, Jr., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Objector and Appellant.

Price, Burness, Price & Davis and Robert L. Davis for Movants and Respondents.


OPINION

BIRD, C.J.

Appellant, plaintiff's attorney in a personal injury suit, was ordered by the trial court to pay respondents $700 in attorney's fees after a mistrial was declared in that action. This court must decide whether the trial court exceeded its authority in issuing that order.

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Appellant, Maxim N. Bach, represented the plaintiff in the personal injury suit of Bauguess v. Paine. The trial...

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