Croce v. Superior Court

—The determinative question here presented is whether an attorney who has represented several clients associated in a business enterprise, in the defense of an action involving their common interest, wherein it was denied that a copartnership existed between them, is disqualified, and the law firm of which he later became a member is also disqualified, from afterwards representing one of those former clients as plaintiff in subsequent litigation instituted against his associates, wherein it is alleged that a copartnership did exist between them. After a hearing in the superior court pursuant…