Gordon v. Superior Court

Opinion

ARGUELLES, J.

—Petitioner, Lillie Mae Gordon (hereafter Gordon), is the plaintiff in a personal injury action arising out of an automobile collision. She seeks an extraordinary writ to compel the superior court to vacate its March 28, 1984, order granting the motion of defendant and real party in interest, U.Z. Manufacturing Company (hereafter U.Z.) to allow U.Z. to amend its answers to interrogatories.

In those answers, U.Z. had admitted that defendant driver, Maria Denise Hayes (hereafter Hayes), was acting in the course and scope of her employment with U.Z. when she was involved in a…