Mercantile Trust Co. v. Sunset Road Oil Co.
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Kern County refusing to call in another judge to preside at the hearing of a motion for a new trial. Howard A. Peairs, •Tudge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Gavin McNab, and R. P. Henshall, for Appellants Sunset Road Oil Company et al.
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APPEAL from an order of the Superior Court of Kern County refusing to call in another judge to preside at the hearing of a motion for a new trial. Howard A. Peairs, •Tudge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Gavin McNab, and R. P. Henshall, for Appellants Sunset Road Oil Company et al. Donzel Stoney, G. S. Arnold, William Denman, A. A. De Ligne, and Denman & Arnold, for Respondents, Kern Valley Bank, and W. R. Williams, Superintendent of Banks of the State of California.
1Opinion of the Court
Sunset Road Oil Company, W.S. Tevis, and other defendants appeal from an order overruling an objection by appellants to the hearing by Judge Peairs of a motion for a new trial made by the cross-complainant, Kern Valley Bank, and the intervener, the superintendent of banks, and denying their motion to have some other judge called to preside at the hearing of the motion for a new trial.
The cause was tried before Judge G.W. Nicol of Tuolumne County who presided by consent of all the parties instead of one of the judges resident in Kern County. After the trial of the case Judge Peairs was…
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