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DAVIS v. EIGHTH JUDICIAL DIST. OF STATE OF NEV.

Nos. 12808, 13012 and 13048.

629 P.2d 1209 (1981)

Chester C. DAVIS, Davis & Cox, a partnership, Maxwell E. Cox, Howard M. Jaffe and D. Martin Cook, Petitioners, v. The EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF the STATE OF NEVADA, IN AND FOR the COUNTY OF CLARK, and the Honorable J. Charles Thompson, Respondents. Frank William GAY, Levar Beebe Myler and John M. Holmes, Jr., Petitioners, v. The EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF the STATE OF NEVADA, IN AND FOR the COUNTY OF CLARK, and the Honorable J. Charles Thompson, Respondents. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF NEVADA, Nevada Co-Special Administrator of the Estate of Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (Deceased); William R. Lummis, Nevada Co-Special Administrator of the Estate of Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (Deceased) and Texas Temporary Co-Administrator of the Estate of Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (Deceased); Summa Corporation: Hughes Air Corp., d/b/a Hughes Airwest, and Hughes Properties, Inc., Petitioners, v. The EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT OF the STATE OF NEVADA, IN AND FOR the COUNTY OF CLARK; the Honorable J. Charles Thompson, District Judge, Eighth Judicial District Court; Howard Lorenzo Eckersley; James H. Rickard; and Wilbur Sutton Thain, M.D., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

June 26, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewis, D'Amato, Brisbois & Bisgaard, R. Gaylord Smith, Los Angeles, Cal., Houston, Moran & Kennedy, John T. Moran, Jr., Las Vegas, for petitioners in 12808.

Jolley, Urga & Wirth, Roger A. Wirth, Las Vegas, Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, Terence M. Murphy, Los Angeles, Cal., for petitioners in 13012 and respondents in 13048.

Echeverria & Osborne, Peter Echeverria, Reno, Kindel & Anderson, Malcolm George Smith, Los Angeles, Cal., Parson, Behle & Latimer, Gordon L. Roberts, Salt Lake City, Utah, Fitzgibbons & Beatty, Thomas D. Beatty, Las Vegas, for petitioners in 13048, and respondents in 12808, 13012.

OPINION

MOWBRAY, Justice:

These original proceedings are a consolidation of three cases: in 12808 and 13012, the lower court refused to quash service of process upon petitioners; in 13048, the lower court granted defendant-respondents' motion to quash service of process.

THE FACTS

On January 24, 1979, a complaint was filed by the Nevada Co-Administrators for the Estate of Howard R. Hughes, Summa Corporation, Hughes Air Corporation, and...

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