PETER CULLEY & ASSOCIATES v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. A057040.

10 Cal.App.4th 1484 (1992)

13 Cal. Rptr.2d 624

PETER CULLEY & ASSOCIATES, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, Respondent; PARK HILL JOINT VENTURE, Real Party in Interest.

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

November 17, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Bishop, Barry, Howe, Haney & Ryder, Thomas O. Haran, Nelson C. Barry III and William Reid Brown for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

Dobbs, Berger, Molinari, Vannelli, Nadel & Links and Robert D. Links for Real Party in Interest.


OPINION

WERDEGAR, J.

(1) Code of Civil Procedure section 877.61 provides a defensive procedure by which a settling joint tortfeasor or co-obligor may extricate itself from a lawsuit and bar actions for equitable indemnity by remaining joint tortfeasors or co-obligors. The central element in section 877.6 is a finding by the court that the settlement was entered in good faith.

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