FORD MOTOR CO. v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. 50875.

120 Cal.App.3d 748 (1981)

175 Cal. Rptr. 39

FORD MOTOR COMPANY, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF ALAMEDA COUNTY, Respondent. EDELL CANADY et al., Real Parties in Interest.

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

June 22, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Barfield, Barfield, Dryden & Ruane, Mattathias N. Smith and John H. O'Reilly for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Bostwick & Tehin and Bruce Robert Pfaff for Real Parties in Interest.


OPINION

CHRISTIAN, J.

Ford Motor Company, defendant in a wrongful death action, petitions this court for a writ of mandate requiring respondent superior court to sustain a demurrer to a cause of action seeking punitive damages.

Real parties in interest sued petitioner for the wrongful death of their son, a passenger in a Pinto automobile which burned when struck by another automobile. In two causes of action real parties sought...

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