Legal Opinion
L. C. Rudd & Son, Inc. v. Superior Court
California Court of Appeal
Decided February 6, 1997No. A074821PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
ANDERSON, P. J.
L. C. Rudd & Son, Inc. (petitioner), a nonsettling defendant in a construction defects suit, seeks a writ of mandate to set aside a determination that a settlement in the action was in good faith. Petitioner contends the settlement as a whole was disproportionately low and, in this regard, that petitioner was improperly denied financial discovery. Petitioner also contends that the settlement order makes an improperly low allocation of the settlement proceeds to those defects for which petitioner could be potentially liable. We conclude that petitioner is correct as to…
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