Kaiser Found. Hosp. v. Superior Court of L.A. Cty.

McCOY, J. pro tem. *

Petitioners seek a writ of mandate to compel respondent court to enter an order granting their motion for a summary judgment. Petitioners contend that a prior judgment in their favor as defendants in a personal injury case brought by a husband and wife is a bar to a subsequent wrongful death action brought by the daughter of the deceased wife, and that the motion for summary judgment should have been granted on that ground.

The personal injury action was commenced hi 1961 by Bernard Moore and Sybil Moore, husband and wife, against these petitioners and others, as…