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THOMSON v. CALL

Docket No. S.F. 24693.

38 Cal.3d 633 (1985)

699 P.2d 316

214 Cal. Rptr. 139

BRUCE THOMSON et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. HUBERT CALL et al., Defendants and Appellants; CITY OF ALBANY et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California.

May 23, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Cooper, White & Cooper, Neil L. Shapiro and E. Garth Black for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Jerome Berg for Defendants and Appellants.

Robert Zwebeb, City Attorney, Robert T. Anderson, Den-Dulk, Douglass & Anderson, Richard M. Heimann, Tonsing & Heimann and Edward R. Fitzsimmons for Defendants and Respondents.

Faber Johnston, City Attorney (Saratoga), as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Respondents.

OPINION

KAUS, J.

The truism that a person cannot serve two masters simultaneously finds expression in California's statutory doctrine that no public official shall be financially interested in any contract made by that person or by any body or board of which he or she is a member.1 Plaintiffs in this taxpayers' suit challenge the validity of a transaction in which defendant Cebert Properties, Inc., purchased...

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