Morris Stulsaft Foundation v. Superior Court

Petitioners seek a writ of mandate commanding respondent court to vacate its order denying their motion to compel a witness to answer questions propounded at a deposition upon oral examination and further commanding respondent to enter an order compelling the witness to answer.

Petitioners are contestants in a will contest pending in the lower court in the Matter of the Estate of Morris Stulsaft, who died in San Francisco on October 23, 1965. Decedent had been hospitalized during the preceding summer and on July 27, 1965, had married real party in interest Lillian Stulsaft in his room at the…