Category: 1955

Budget Finance Plan v. Sav-On Food Club , 44 Cal.2d 565 [L. A. Nos. 23328, 23329.In Bank.May 17, 1955.] BUDGET FINANCE PLAN (a Corporation), Appellant, v. SAV-ON FOOD CLUB, INC. (a Corporation), Respondent. (Two Cases.) COUNSEL Mario L. Clinco and Edgar J. Melchione for Appellant. J. George Bragin for Respondent. OPINION SCHAUER, J. Plaintiff, the […]

I.E.S. Corporation v. Superior Court , 44 Cal.2d 559 [L. A. No. 23536. In Bank. May 10, 1955.] I.E.S CORPORATION (a Corporation) et al., Petitioners, v. SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY et al., Respondents; MAX GOLD et al., Real Parties in Interest. COUNSEL Combs & Hoose, Lee Combs and Harned Pettus Hoose for Petitioners. […]

Southwest Explor. Co. v. County of Orange , 44 Cal.2d 549 [L. A. No. 23480. In Bank. May 10, 1955.] SOUTHWEST EXPLORATION COMPANY (a Corporation), Appellant, v. COUNTY OF ORANGE et al., Respondents. [L. A. No. 23481. In Bank. May 10, 1955.] SIGNAL OIL AND GAS COMPANY (a Corporation), Appellant, v. COUNTY OF ORANGE et […]

Moreno v. Southern Pac. Co. , 44 Cal.2d 547 [Sac. No. 6520. In Bank. Apr. 29, 1955.] EPIMENIO MORENO, Appellant, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY (a Corporation), Respondent. COUNSEL Nathaniel S. Colley for Appellant. Dunne, Dunne & Phelps, Devlin, Diepenbrock & Wulff and Arthur B. Dunne for Respondent. OPINION GIBSON, C.J. Plaintiff appeals from a judgment […]

Aranda v. Southern Pac. Co. , 44 Cal.2d 543 [Sac. No. 6521. In Bank. Apr. 29, 1955.] ROQUE ARANDA, Respondent, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY (a Corporation), Appellant. COUNSEL Devlin, Diepenbrock & Wulff and Arthur B. Dunne for Appellant. Nathaniel S. Colley and Mamoru Sakuma for Respondent. OPINION GIBSON, C.J. Plaintiff brought this action under the […]

Eufrazia v. Southern Pacific Co. (Mem.) , 44 Cal.2d 881 [Sac. No. 6522. In Bank. Apr. 29, 1955.] ALBERT EUFRAZIA, Appellant, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY (a Corporation), Respondent. COUNSEL Thomas C. Perkins for Appellant. Devlin, Diepenbrock & Wulff and Arthur B. Dunne for Respondent. OPINION OF THE COURT Memorandum THE COURT. Plaintiff was injured while […]

Eelk v. Southern Pacific Co. (Mem.) , 44 Cal.2d 882 [Sac. No. 6523. In Bank. Apr. 29, 1955.] CHARLES EELK, Appellant, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY (a Corporation), Respondent. COUNSEL Anthony J. Scalora for Appellant. Horace B. Wulff, Devlin, Diepenbrock & Wulff, Dunne, Dunne & Phelps and Arthur B. Dunne for Respondent. OPINION OF THE COURT […]

Freeman v. Superior Court , 44 Cal.2d 533 [L. A. No. 23643. In Bank. Apr. 29, 1955.] CHESTER LEE FREEMAN, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY et al., Respondents. COUNSEL Vincent Whelan for Petitioner. Edgar B. Hervey and James Edgar Hervey for Respondents. OPINION SPENCE, J. Petitioner seeks to annul the order […]

Mueller v. Mueller , 44 Cal.2d 527 [L. A. No. 23320. In Bank. Apr. 29, 1955.] GERTRUDE ELSBETH MUELLER, Respondent, v. KURT HANS MUELLER, Appellant. COUNSEL Krag & Sweet and William L. Mock for Appellant. Dockweiler & Dockweiler and Frederick C. Dockweiler for Respondent. OPINION TRAYNOR, J. On September 30, 1952, plaintiff Gertrude Mueller filed […]

Gileo v. Southern Pac. Co. , 44 Cal.2d 539 [S. F. No. 19090. In Bank. Apr. 29, 1955.] CHARLES M. GILEO, Respondent, v. SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY (a Corporation), Appellant. COUNSEL Arthur B. Dunne and Dunne, Dunne & Phelps for Appellant. Hildebrand, Bills & McLeod, Sheridan Downey, Jr., D. W. Brobst and Clifton Hildebrand for Respondent. […]

Sharff v. Superior Court , 44 Cal.2d 508 [S. F. No. 19214. In Bank. Apr. 28, 1955.] ROY A. SHARFF et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, Respondent; BELFAST BEVERAGES, INC. (a Corporation), Real Party in Interest. COUNSEL Roy A. Sharff, in pro. per., and Ivan C. […]

People v. Raven , 44 Cal.2d 523 [Crim. No. 5677. In Bank. Apr. 28, 1955.] THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. WILLIAM E. RAVEN, Appellant. COUNSEL J. Frederick Rosen and William W. Shaw for Appellant. Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General and W. B. Thayer, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent. OPINION GIBSON, C.J. Defendant appeals from a judgment […]

People v. Jackson , 44 Cal.2d 511 [Crim. No. 5658. In Bank. Apr. 28, 1955.] THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. HAROLD JACKSON et al., Appellants. COUNSEL Valentine C. Hammack and Sidney Feinberg for Appellant Jackson. Frances Newell Carr and Robert K. Winters for Appellant Lear. Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Assistant Attorney General, […]

Worthley v. Worthley , 44 Cal.2d 465 [L. A. No. 22889. In Bank. Apr. 28, 1955.] RUTH M. WORTHLEY, Appellant, v. EDWARD J. WORTHLEY, Respondent. COUNSEL Kenny & Morris and Robert W. Kenny for Appellant. Slane, Mantalica & Davis and Frank Barclay for Respondent. [44 Cal.2d 467] OPINION TRAYNOR, J. Plaintiff appeals from a judgment […]

Doran v. City & County of San Francisco , 44 Cal.2d 477 [S. F. No. 19190. In Bank. Apr. 28, 1955.] JEANNE DORAN et al., Appellants, v. CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, Respondent. [S. F. No. 19191. In Bank. Apr. 28, 1955.] JULES BESSETTE, Appellant, v. CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, Respondent. COUNSEL […]

People v. Cahan , 44 Cal.2d 434 [Crim. No. 5670. In Bank. Apr. 27, 1955.] THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. CHARLES H. CAHAN, Appellant. COUNSEL Russell E. Parsons for Appellant. John G. Buresh, Richard V. Bettini, Morris Lavine, Horace Appel, Albert C. Garber, A. L. Wirin, Nathan L. Schoichet and Morris M. Grupp as Amici Curiae […]

People v. Berger , 44 Cal.2d 459 [Crim. No. 5664. In Bank. Apr. 27, 1955.] THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. ALFRED BERGER, Appellant. COUNSEL Morris M. Grupp for Appellant. Charles R. Garry, Norman Leonard, George Olshausen and Leo R. Friedman as Amici Curiae on behalf of Appellant. [44 Cal.2d 460] Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Clarence […]

Stowe v. Fritzie Hotels, Inc. , 44 Cal.2d 416 [L. A. No. 23638. In Bank. Apr. 26, 1955.] ARTHUR W. STOWE, Appellant, v. FRITZIE HOTELS, INC. (a Corporation), Respondent. COUNSEL Harold D. Kraft and Robert F. Reynolds for Appellant. Frank W. Woodhead, Robert E. Morrow and Henry F. Walker for Respondent. OPINION EDMONDS, J. Arthur […]

Estate of Calhoun , 44 Cal.2d 378 [L. A. No. 22987. In Bank. Apr. 26, 1955.] Estate of GEORGE A. CALHOUN, Deceased. DAISY OREB, as Administratrix, etc., Appellant, v. WALTER WILLIAM PETTIT, Respondent. COUNSEL Charles C. Morrison for Appellant. Richard McLeod for Respondent. Louis Thomsen as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Respondent. OPINION EDMONDS, J. […]

American Ind. Sales Corp. v. Airscope, Inc. , 44 Cal.2d 393 [L. A. No. 23503. In Bank. Apr. 26, 1955.] AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL SALES CORPORATION (a Corporation), Respondent, v. AIRSCOPE, INC. (a Corporation), Appellant. COUNSEL Woodrow & Baird for Appellant. Stanton & Stanton as Amici Curiae on behalf of Appellant. Lane & Lane for Respondent. OPINION […]

People v. Berry , 44 Cal.2d 426 [Crim. No. 5656. In Bank. Apr. 26, 1955.] THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. HAROLD E. BERRY, Appellant. COUNSEL William Kirk Stewart and Thomas S. Montgomery, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Appellant. Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Clarence A. Linn, Assistant Attorney General, and Raymond M. Momboisse, Deputy […]

Ferro v. Citizens Nat. Trust & Sav. Bank , 44 Cal.2d 401 [L. A. No. 23524. In Bank. Apr. 26, 1955.] PIETRO FERRO, Respondent, v. CITIZENS NATIONAL TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK OF LOS ANGELES, Appellant. [L. A. No. 23525. In Bank. Apr. 26, 1955.] MONARCH WINE COMPANY, INC. (a Corporation), Respondent v. CITIZENS NATIONAL TRUST […]

Leming v. Oilfields Trucking Co. , 44 Cal.2d 343 [L. A. No. 23272. In Bank. Apr. 22, 1955.] HARVEY LEMING, Respondent, v. OILFIELDS TRUCKING COMPANY (a Corporation) et al., Appellants. COUNSEL Baker, Palmer & Wall, Claude F. Baker and Jack W. Bradley for Appellants. Oscar F. Catalano, J. A. Palmquist and A. V. Falcone for […]

People v. Terry , 44 Cal.2d 371 [Crim. No. 5697. In Bank. Apr. 22, 1955.] THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. GRADY C. TERRY et al., Defendants; LLOYD FRED ROSSI, Appellant. COUNSEL William H. Rosenthal, Marshall Gumbiner and Joseph Ostrow for Appellant. Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Norman H. Sokolow, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent. OPINION […]

Smith v. Industrial Acc. Com. , 44 Cal.2d 364 [S. F. No. 19019. In Bank. Apr. 22, 1955.] GEORGE SMITH, Petitioner, v. INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT COMMISSION et al., Respondents. COUNSEL Julius M. Keller for Petitioner. Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, Gerald A. Carrera, Deputy Attorney General, Everett A. Corten and T. Groezinger for Respondents. OPINION SCHAUER, […]