Wait v. Second Judicial District Court

OPINION

By the Court,

Badt, J.:

Petitioner, attorney Richard P. Wait, has filed a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the respondent district court, and the respondent judge thereof, to allow petitioner to remain as counsel for two of the three defendants in a tort action.

The plaintiff in that tort action was a Mrs. Geraldine Wilson, whose complaint alleged that a grocery clerk, thereafter identified as Boyd Turpin, acting on behalf of his employers and within the scope of his employment, suddenly leaped at plaintiff from a place of concealment and loudly shouted at her while she was…