The Times-Mirror Co. v. Superior Court

These two proceedings were on the December, 1938, calendar of this court, sitting in bank, with five regular justices and one justice pro tempore present. The cases were then argued by counsel for the respective parties and by one of the amici curiae. Thereafter and before any decision of either of said causes had been agreed upon, one of said justices died, and another of said justices declared his disqualification to participate in any decision that might be *102rendered in either of said causgs. In this situation, this court found that it was unable to procure the concurrence of the…