Category: 1936

Harris v. Pacific Mut. Life Ins. Co., 6 Cal.2d 384 [L. A. No. 15638. In Bank. May 15, 1936.] In the Matter of the Petition of W. S. HARRIS, Appellant, v. PACIFIC MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA (a Corporation), Respondent. COUNSEL Lloyd S. Nix for Appellant. Guthrie & Darling for Respondent. OPINION SHENK, J. […]

Bennett v. California Trust Co., 6 Cal.2d 381 [L. A. No. 15649. In Bank. May 15, 1936.] MANERVA D. BENNETT, as Executrix, etc., Appellant, v. CALIFORNIA TRUST COMPANY (a Corporation) et al., Respondents. COUNSEL T. Frank Courtney for Appellant. [6 Cal.2d 382] Swanwick, Donnelly & Proudfit and Tom W. Henderson for Respondents. OPINION SHENK, J. […]

Cobb v. California Bank, 6 Cal.2d 389 [L. A. No. 15655. In Bank. May 15, 1936.] LEROY JAMES COBB et al., Appellants, v. CALIFORNIA BANK (a Corporation) et al., Respondents. COUNSEL R. C. W. Friday for Appellants. Swanwick, Donnelly & Proudfit and Tom W. Henderson for Respondents. OPINION CURTIS, J. Motion to dismiss appeal or […]

McGee v. City of Los Angeles, 6 Cal.2d 390 [L. A. No. 15688. In Bank. May 15, 1936.] WM. M. McGEE, Appellant, v. CITY OF LOS ANGELES (a Municipal Corporation), Respondent. COUNSEL George E. Cryer and R. Alston Jones for Appellant. Ray L. Chesebro, City Attorney, Frederick von Schrader, Assistant City Attorney, and G. Ellsworth […]

  Citizens Nat. Trust etc. Bank v. Maher, 6 Cal.2d 386 [L. A. No. 15572. In Bank. May 15, 1936.] CITIZENS NATIONAL TRUST & SAVINGS BANK (a National Banking Association), Respondent, v. JOHN MAHER, Appellant. TITLE INSURANCE AND TRUST COMPANY (a Corporation), Respondent, v. JOHN MAHER, Appellant. COUNSEL John C. Campbell for Appellant. Hugh Ward […]

Casper v. San Francisco, 6 Cal.2d 376 [S. F. No. 15628. In Bank. May 14, 1936.] STEPHEN A. CASPER, Appellant, v. CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO (a Public Corporation) et al., Respondents. COUNSEL Orrick, Palmer & Dahlquist, W. H. Orrick, George Herrington and W. J. Kenney for Appellant. John J. O’Toole, City Attorney, and […]

Hewitt v. San Jose Pacific Co., Ltd., 6 Cal.2d 372 [S. F. No. 15634. In Bank. May 14, 1936.] MAUD HEWITT, Appellant, v. SAN JOSE PACIFIC COMPANY, LTD. (a Corporation), as Trustee, et al., Respondents. COUNSEL A. J. Hennessy and Kenneth B. Dawson for Appellant. Breed, Burpee & Robinson and Harold C. Holmes, Jr., for […]

Estate of Hardenberg, 6 Cal.2d 371 [L. A. No. 15627. In Bank. May 14, 1936.] In the Matter of the Estate of MARY A. HARDENBERG, Deceased. ZOLA GARRAHAN et al., Appellants, v. FREDERICK FAY ROBINSON, Administrator, et al., Respondents. COUNSEL G. F. Peck, Hugh M. Bole and Stewart & Stewart for Appellants. Fred S. Patch, […]

Roberts v. Title Ins. & Trust Co., 6 Cal.2d 373 [L. A. No. 15583. In Bank. May 14, 1936.] BESSIE ROBERTS, Appellant, v. TITLE INSURANCE & TRUST COMPANY (a Corporation) et al., Respondents. COUNSEL George P. Cook for Appellant. William L. Kuehn and Franz R. Sachse for Respondents. OPINION CONREY, J. In this action for […]

Consolidated Steel Corp. v. Indus. Acc. Com., 6 Cal.2d 368 [L. A. No. 15659. In Bank. May 13, 1936.] CONSOLIDATED STEEL CORPORATION, LTD. (a Corporation), Petitioner, v. INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT COMMISSION and RAY ROLDAN, Respondents. COUNSEL Loeb, Walker & Loeb for Petitioner. Everett A. Corten and Emmet J. Seawell for Respondents. [6 Cal.2d 369] OPINION THOMPSON, […]

Fleischmann v. Lotito, 6 Cal.2d 365 [L. A. No. 15599. In Bank. May 12, 1936.] THEODORE FLEISCHMANN et al., Respondents, v. JOHN LOTITO et al., Appellants. COUNSEL Henry Haves for Appellants. Lane & Lane for Respondents. OPINION THOMPSON, J. This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs in an action to […]

Mulkey v. Reitman , 64 Cal.2d 529 [L.A. No. 28360. In Bank. May 10, 1936.] LINCOLN W. MULKEY et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. NEIL REITMAN et al., Defendants and Respondents. COUNSEL David R. Cadwell, A. L. Wirin, Fred Okrand, Joseph A. Ball and Herman F. Selvin for Plaintiffs and Appellants. John F. Duff, Richard […]

Kennedy v. State Personnel Board, 6 Cal.2d 340 [Sac. No. 4995. In Bank. May 1, 1936.] ANTHONY J. KENNEDY, Petitioner, v. STATE PERSONNEL BOARD, etc., et al., Respondents. COUNSEL Anthony J. Kennedy, in pro. per., and Norris J. Burke for Petitioner. Keith & Creede and Shreck & Morse, as Amici Curiae on Behalf of Petitioner. […]

Market St. Ry. Co. v. Industrial Acc. Com., 6 Cal.2d 344 [S. F. No. 15440. In Bank. May 1, 1936.] MARKET STREET RAILWAY COMPANY (a Corporation), Petitioner, v. INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT COMMISSION and FRANK HENRY HOPKINS et al., Respondents. COUNSEL Wm. M. Abbott, K. W. Cannon, Cyril Appel and Ivores R. Dains for Petitioner. Everett A. […]

Kelly v. McCarthy, 6 Cal.2d 347 [S. F. No. 15319. In Bank. May 1, 1936.] CHARLES G. KELLY, Respondent, v. ALICE S. McCARTHY, Appellant. COUNSEL Carroll S. Bucher, H. H. McPike and W. F. Mathewson for Appellant. Walter H. Linforth, Wm. M. Cannon and Jesse H. Miller for Respondent. OPINION SEAWELL, J. This appeal is […]

Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corp. v. Indus.A.C., 6 Cal.2d 314 [S. F. No. 15562. In Bank. May 1, 1936.] MERRITT-CHAPMAN & SCOTT CORPORATION (a Corporation) et al., Petitioners, v. INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT COMMISSION and RALPH B. SMITH, Respondents. [6 Cal.2d 315] COUNSEL R. P. Wisecarver for Petitioners. Everett A. Corten and Emmet J. Seawell for Respondents. OPINION […]

People v. Berryman, 6 Cal.2d 331 [Crim. No. 3952. In Bank. May 1, 1936.] THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. JOHN B. BERRYMAN, Appellant. COUNSEL A. J. Harder for Appellant. U.S. Webb, Attorney-General, and Ralph H. Cowing, Deputy Attorney- General, for Respondent. [6 Cal.2d 333] OPINION CURTIS, J. Defendant was convicted of murder of the first degree. […]

Sheean v. Michel, 6 Cal.2d 324 [S. F. No. 15469. In Bank. May 1, 1936.] WILLIAM A. SHEEAN, Appellant, v. EMILE MICHEL et al., Respondents. COUNSEL P. A. Bergerot and A. P. Dessouslavy for Appellant. William E. Harvent for Respondents. OPINION SHENK, J. The plaintiff became the purchaser at an execution sale of certain lots […]

Thompson v. Clark, 6 Cal.2d 777 [S. F. No. 15595. In Bank. May 1, 1936.] W. W. THOMPSON, Respondent, v. MINERVA E. CLARK et al., Appellants. COUNSEL John L. McNab, S. C. Wright and Albert Mansfield for Appellants. Eugene K. Sturgis for Respondent. OPINION OF THE COURT Memorandum THE COURT. [1] This action involves the […]

  Thompson v. Clark, 6 Cal.2d 285 [S. F. No. 15500. In Bank. May 1, 1936.] W. W. THOMPSON, Appellant, v. MINERVA E. CLARK et al., Respondents. COUNSEL Eugene K. Sturgis for Appellant. John L. McNab, S. C. Wright and Albert Mansfield for Respondents. OPINION SEAWELL, J. Plaintiff W. W. Thompson brought this action to […]

Huysman v. Kirsch, 6 Cal.2d 302 [L. A. No. 14448. In Bank. May 1, 1936.] CHRISTIAN HUYSMAN et al., Appellants, v. RALPH L. KIRSCH, Respondent. COUNSEL Frank C. Dunham, Louis Semon and E. De Young Vasse for Appellants. W. I. Gilbert, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Wm. M. Rains and Philip C. Sterry for Respondent. OPINION […]

Rainey v. Michel, 6 Cal.2d 259 [L. A. No. 14462. In Bank. April 30, 1936.] EDWARD RAINEY, Superintendent of Banks, etc., Respondent, v. HERMAN MICHEL, Appellant. COUNSEL Ivan G. McDaniel and John Dales, Jr., for Appellant. Holcomb, Holcomb & Kempley, Devlin & Devlin & Diepenbrock, Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, Alfred Sutro, Eugene M. Prince, Francis […]

Fitts v. Superior Court, 6 Cal.2d 247 [S. F. No. 15383. In Bank. April 30, 1936.] BURON FITTS, Petitioner, v. SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent. COUNSEL Harold Judson, Jack Gilchrist, Joseph Scott, Jerry Giesler, Roland G. Swaffield, O’Melveny, Tuller & Myers and Walter K. Tuller for Petitioner. [6 Cal.2d 248] Everett W. Mattoon, […]

Fitts v. Superior Court, 6 Cal.2d 230 [L. A. No. 15256. In Bank. April 30, 1936.] BURON FITTS, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent. [6 Cal.2d 232] COUNSEL Harold Judson, Jack Gilchrist, Joseph Scott, Jerry Giesler, Roland G. Swaffield and Walter K. Tuller for Petitioner. Everett W. Mattoon, County Counsel, S. […]

Skaggs v. City of Oakland, 6 Cal.2d 222 [S. F. No. 15437. In Bank. April 30, 1936.] V. R. SKAGGS, etc., et al., Appellants, v. CITY OF OAKLAND (a Municipal Corporation) et al., Respondents. COUNSEL William H. Hollander and I. Richard Gladstein for Appellants. F. Bert Fernhoff, City Attorney, and Hilton J. Melby, Assistant City […]