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HEMMELGARN v. BOEING CO.

Docket No. 18869.

106 Cal.App.3d 576 (1980)

165 Cal. Rptr. 190

JACQUELINE LORRAINE HEMMELGARN, as Executrix, etc., et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. BOEING COMPANY et al., Defendants and Respondents. STUART MISKOW, as Executor, etc., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. BOEING COMPANY et al., Defendants and Respondents. MARIA GUILIA GIURIATO, et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. BOEING COMPANY et al., Defendants and Respondents.

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

June 5, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Sterns, Bostwick & Tehin, John C. Elstead and Gerald C. Sterns for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Perkins, Coie, Stone, Olsen & Williams, Keith Gerrard, Thomas J. McLaughlin, John D. Dillon, Rudi M. Brewster, Gray, Cary, Ames & Frye, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Robert Forgnone and Gregory G. Hollows for Defendants and Respondents.

OPINION

WIENER, J.

(1) The doctrine of inconvenient forum which permits an action to be removed to another state or country for trial is "by its nature a drastic remedy to be exercised ... with caution and restraint." (Bechtel Corp. v. Industrial Indem. Co. (1978) 86 Cal.App.3d 45, 49 [150 Cal.Rptr. 29].) (2)

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