Legal Opinion
Hunt-Wesson Foods, Inc. v. County of Stanislaus
California Court of Appeal
Decided May 19, 1969No. Civ. 1070PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtConley, P. J.
This appeal tests the question whether depositions may be taken as a matter of right for purely discovery purposes under section 2017 of the Code of Civil Procedure. The trial court said, “No,” but the appellant registers an emphatic, “Yes.”
In the year 1967, Hunt-Wesson Foods, Inc., concluded that the Stanislaus County assessor and his staff had improperly assessed the inventory of its Oakdale plant. The full cash value of the inventory," as determined by the assessor, was found to be an amount exactly equal to '‘standard costs.” Appellant disputed the value assigned to its property as being…
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