Union Oil Co. v. Superior Court

RICHARDS, J. pro tem. *

The petitioner, Union Oil Company, seeks a writ of prohibition to restrain the respondent court from enforcing portions of an order for inspection. The order was made in an action in which the surviving heirs of Francis P. Williams and William P. Farry seek to recover damages from the petitioner for the wrongful death of the decedents, caused by poisonous gases while the decedents were on the petitioner’s premises as business invitees, and alleged to have resulted from petitioner’s negligent operation and management of its premises and equipment. The plaintiffs in the…