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REPUBLIC CORP. v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. B003388.

160 Cal.App.3d 1253 (1984)

207 Cal. Rptr. 241

REPUBLIC CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; SALVATORE R. DELFINO et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Seven.

October 22, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Booth, Mitchel, Strange & Smith, George C. Mitchel, Edwin F. McPherson and Michael A. Cartelli for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

William F. Hertz II for Real Parties in Interest.

OPINION

THOMPSON, J.

This petition for an alternative writ of mandate arises over the issue of the statutory interpretation of the mandatory dismissal provision of Code of Civil Procedure1 section 581a, subdivision (a). Because the amended version of section 581a governs the case at bench, we will grant the petition.

On July 18, 1978, Salvatore Delfino, plaintiff and real party in interest, suffered...

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